[Users] oVirt October Updates

[Itamar Heim]

Hope to meet many next week in LinuxCon Europe/KVM Forum/oVirt 
conference in Edinburgh

Highlights:
- oVirt 3.3 GA of course! some links covering it[10]
- more links in Russian, Japanese, German and Italian [15]
- oVirt 3.3.1 nearing beta
   this will include a slew of bug fixes, and a few items which missed
   3.3.
- Malini Rao sent a proposal for some UI changes[4]
- some pluggable scheduler samples are available[5]
- Summarized 3.4 community requests, hope the top ones will make it to
   3.4[6]
- 3.4 cycle - planned to be a shorter cycle, trying to make features
   available faster.
- René Koch published version 0.1 of Monitoring UI-Plugin[8]
- a new oVirt module merged to Ansible - covers VM life cycle
   (create/start/stop/etc.)  [11]
- a puppet module to deploy ovirt engine and ovirt node[12]
- and a chef one[14] (both by Jason Cannon)


Conferences:

- LinuxCon Europe/KVM Forum/oVirt - next week in Edinburgh
   LOTs of sessions: http://www.ovirt.org/KVM_Forum_2013

- FOSDEM 2014 - We will be co-organizing a "Virtualization and IaaS"
   DevRoom with +Lars Kurth, +Itamar Heim  and +Thierry Carrez as
   DevRoom organizers

- past:
   Open World Forum - Building an open hybrid cloud with open source[13]
   K-LUG - Rochester, MN Area Linux Users Group - oVirt intro[16]

Other:
- a 3 part series by Humble on using the python sdk:
   How to shutdown/stop or start virtual machines (VMs) in ovirt DC
   automatically?[1]

   List Datacenter, hypervisors/host,vms in an ovirt DC with its
   name,status,id..etc[2]

   Find out hosts and clusters where vm is running. its status, ids,
   storage domain details in an ovirt dc[3]

- another one by Humble:  Convert physical/virtual systems to virtual
   using virt-p2v && virt-v2v then use it in ovirt DC[7]

- LINBIT published "High-Availability oVirt-Cluster with
   iSCSI-Storage"[9]

Have Fun,
    Itamar



[1] 
http://humblec.com/ovirt-shutdownstop-start-virtual-machines-vms-ovirt-dc-automatically-using-python-sdk/

[2] 
http://humblec.com/ovirt-list-datacenter-hypervisorshostvms-ovirt-dc-status-using-pythonovirt-sdk-part-2/

[3] 
http://humblec.com/ovirt-find-hosts-clusters-vm-running-status-ids-storage-domain-details-ovirt-dc-pythonovirt-sdk-part-3/

[4] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-October/017088.html

[5] 
http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-scheduler-proxy.git;a=tree;f=plugins/examples

[6] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-October/016898.html

[7] 
http://humblec.com/convert-physical-virtual-virtual-using-virt-v2v-virt-p2v-kvmovirt/

[8] http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2013-October/016842.html

[9] note: link requires registeration:
http://www.linbit.com/en/company/news/333-high-available-virtualization-at-a-most-reasonable-price
the pdf is: 
http://www.linbit.com/en/downloads/tech-guides?download=68:high-availability-ovirt-cluster-with-iscsi-storage

[10] ovirt 3.3 ga links

http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/announce/2013-September/000061.html

http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.3_release_announcement

http://www.redhat.com/about/news/archive/2013/9/ovirt-3-3-release-brings-openstack-and-gluster-integration-to-premier-open-source-virtualization-management-project

http://community.redhat.com/ovirt-3-3-glusterized/

http://community.redhat.com/ovirt-3-3-spices-up-the-software-defined-datacenter-with-openstack-and-gluster-integration/

http://www.tuicool.com/articles/eIJnMr

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTQ2MzQ

http://captainkvm.com/2013/09/614/

http://www.vmwareindex.com/category/hadoop-splunk/openstack/ovirt-3-3-is-now-released

http://thehyperadvisor.com/2013/09/17/ovirt-3-3-is-now-released/

[11] https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/3838

[12] http://forge.puppetlabs.com/jcannon/ovirt/0.0.1

[13]
http://www.openworldforum.org/en/schedule/1/
http://www.openworldforum.org/en/speakers/49/

[14] http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/ovirt

[15]
russian:
http://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=38000

http://ru.fedoracommunity.org/content/%D0%92%D1%8B%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BB-ovirt-%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B8-33-%D0%B8-%D0%B4%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B5-%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8

http://linuxforum.ru/viewtopic.php?id=30572

http://citrix.pp.ru/news/2214-novaya-versiya-sistemy-upravleniya-infrastrukturoj-virtualizatsii-ovirt-3-3.html

german:
http://www.pro-linux.de/news/1/20258/ovirt-33-unterstuetzt-openstack.html

japanese:
http://en.sourceforge.jp/magazine/13/09/25/163000

italian:
http://www.freeonline.org/cs/com/la-release-ovirt-3-3-integra-openstack-e-gluster-nel-progetto-di-gestione-della-virtualizzazione-open-source.html
http://www.tomshw.it/cont/news/open-source-red-hat-gestisce-la-virtualizzazione/49564/1.html

[16] http://k-lug.org/OldNews