[Users] oVirt Roadmap feature requests - Summary

Itamar Heim iheim at redhat.com
Sun Oct 6 19:55:33 UTC 2013


so, a lot of input post my question for 3.4 planning on "what do you 
want next"[1]

I've just aggregated the replies here at this point for easier 
processing going forward:


Infra
- ability to give permissions to group of objects (namely, VMs)
- support users/groups in oVirt DB as an authentication provider
- support keystone as an authentication provider
- kerberos login to webadmin/user portal
- stateless host (pxe boot, no local disks)
- detect updates and update host accordingly
- embedded pxe/tftp boot server, setup to deploy the nodes
- snmp & snmp trap monitoring

Virt
- template versions (ability to update template of a pool)
- pci passthrough for devices like Telephone modem, PCI-express cards,
   Graphic cards
- usbhost hook as supported feature (hardware license tokens)
- ability to provide libvirt features directly[2]
- dependencies between VMs (start db vm before webapp vm)
- Allow to clone a VM without snapshot/template
- Integrate v2v into engine
- oVirt guest agent for Ubuntu/openSUSE/SLES/Debian
- compatibility with OVF 2.0.1
- solaris as supported guest OS

Network
- private network between VMs
- Network NAT for VMs (with buildin DHCP).
- openvswitch support (in 3.3, via neutron?)
- nic ordering

Storage
- import existing data domain
- live merge (delete snapshot)
- ability to resize a storage domain lun
- multiple storage domains (local/gluster/FC)
- ISO and export domains on FC/iSCSI
- Upload ISOs within the GUI to ISO domain
- Use an existing share for ISO domain
- A backup and restore option
- iSCSI EqualLogic SAN support or use standard iscsi tools/configuration
- ATA over ethernet (AoE) as an optional storage transport
- DR
- DRBD, either with CLVM or perhaps GFS
- live disk resize
- disk ordering

SLA
- positive/negative affinity between group of VMs
- power saving policy moving hosts to sleep
- time based policy (SLA during the day, power saving at night)
- collect and show power consumption of hosts
- allow to give weights to prefer "faster" hosts to other hosts
- application level HA (monitor the service inside the VM)

Other
- Zabbix monitoring


[1] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-August/015807.html
[2] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/engine-devel/2013-August/005364.html



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