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

Daniel Helgenberger daniel.helgenberger at m-box.de
Mon Oct 20 06:46:28 EDT 2014


On 20.10.2014 10:50, Sandro Bonazzola wrote:
> Il 20/10/2014 10:13, Tiemen Ruiten ha scritto:
>> 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?
>
> Looks like we have a documentation gap here.
> I tried to search the oVirt site for pointing you to a section describing how to upgrade hosts but did not found one.
>
> I think that we need to finish
> http://www.ovirt.org/DraftInstallationGuide
> and probably prepare an upgrade guide too.
>
> You'll need to install the ovirt-release35 rpm on your hosts since the engine is not able to add the new repository (yet? maybe an RFE on this should
> be filled for easing the upgrade process of the hosts).
A very good idea. I took the liberty filing this RFE [1]


[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1154620
>
>> On 20 October 2014 08:48, Sandro Bonazzola <sbonazzo at redhat.com <mailto:sbonazzo at 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
>>     >>
>>     >
>>
>>
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>>     Sandro Bonazzola
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>> Tiemen Ruiten
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