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

Hello, Last week I upgraded to 3.5 and on the engine side everything went absolutely fine. Now I'm wondering what to do about my hosts (full CentOS 6 installs). Is the upgrade something the engine takes care of when I set the compatibility version to 3.5? Or should I install the ovirt-release35 rpm and run yum update on all hosts? Should I expect impact on running VM's, eg. from restarting vdsm?

On 20 October 2014 08:48, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo(a)redhat.com <mailto:sbonazzo@redhat.com>> wrote: Il 19/10/2014 16:53, Daniel Helgenberger ha scritto: > 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). I really like when someone report everything goes fine :-) > > 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 >> > -- Sandro Bonazzola Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration. See how it works at redhat.com <http://redhat.com> _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users(a)ovirt.org <mailto:Users@ovirt.org> http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users -- Tiemen Ruiten Systems Engineer R&D Media