[ovirt-announce] [ANN] oVirt 3.5 GA Releases

[Sandro Bonazzola]

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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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

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Sandro Bonazzola
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