Re: [ovirt-users] [ANN] oVirt 3.5 GA Releases

Congratulations! Hope you could get your party. Sandro, as I know you always like to hear things like this: I just upgraded my oVirt 3.4.4 installation to 3.5 and everything went really well (apart from some package siging / deps; but these are really not your issues).

Tomorrow I start checking out the new stuff. Thank you! I really appreciate the work you do. Daniel On 17.10.2014 14:46, Sandro Bonazzola wrote: > The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the general availability of its sixth formal release, oVirt 3.5, as of October 17, 2014. > > oVirt is an open source alternative to VMware vSphere, and provides an excellent KVM management interface for multi-node virtualization. oVirt is > available now for Fedora 19, Fedora 20, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5, and CentOS 6.5 (or similar) and allow you to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and > CentOS 7 too as node and for running Hosted Engine. > > New features include: > > Live Merge > ---------- > If an image has one or more snapshots, oVirt 3.5's merge command will combine the data of one volume into another. Live merges can be performed with > data is pulled from one snapshot into another snapshot. The engine can merge multiple disks at the same time and each merge can independently fail or > succeed in each operation. > Import Storage Domain > > This latest release expands oVirt's feature of importing ISOs and exporting storage domains to expand support for importing an existing data storage > domain. Based on information stored in the storage domain, oVirt can revive entities such as disks, virtual machines, and templates in the setup of > any data center to which the storage domain is attached. > > > Advanced Foreman Integration > ---------------------------- > oVirt 3.5 adds the capability to provision and add hypervisors to oVirt from bare metal. Foreman is a complete lifecycle management tool for physical > and virtual servers. Through deep integration with configuration management, DHCP, DNS, TFTP, and PXE-based unattended installations, Foreman manages > every stage of the lifecycle of your physical or virtual servers. Integrating Foreman with oVirt helps add hypervisor hosts managed by Foreman to the > oVirt engine. > > > Enhanced Authentication, Authorization and Accounting Support > ------------------------------------------------------------- > A new architecture has been built for oVirt 3.5's authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) system. The enhancements will provide a clear > separation of authentication from authorization and provide a developer API to develop custom extensions for authentication and authorization. > > > New PatternFly Interface > ------------------------ > oVirt 3.5 will have a new look and feel, using PatternFly, the open interface project. The new look and feel aims to maintain the colors and spirit > associated with oVirt, while updating it with a new, modern, sleek, and minimal look. The minimal design allows complex screens to look cleaner and > airier, and lets the user focus on the data and the tasks by removing all extraneous visual elements. > > > Advanced Scheduling with Optaplanner > ------------------------------------ > The Optaplanner is a new service that takes a snapshot of a cluster (a list of hosts and VMs) and computes an optimized VM-to-Host assignment > solution. Optimization will is done on per Cluster basis. The administrator can use this information as a hint to tweak the cluster to better utilize > resources. > > > > This release of oVirt also includes numerous bug fixes. See the release notes [1] for a complete list of the new features and bugs fixed. > > A new repository has been created and will be automatically enabled by installing / upgrading ovirt-release35 package. > See release notes page for further instructions about install / upgrade. > > A new oVirt Live iso is also available [2] and a new oVirt Node iso will be available soon. > > [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_Release_Notes > [2] http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.5/iso/ovirt-live-el6-3.5.0.iso >