[ovirt-users] [ovirt-announce] oVirt Newsletter: September 2014 Updates

Wed Oct 1 20:24:46 UTC 2014

Hi Brian

I also gave a deep dive on Host Power Management in oVirt
http://youtu.be/IuRPGU7nF1E

Thanks
Eli Mesika

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Proffitt" <bproffit at redhat.com>
> To: "users" <users at ovirt.org>, "board" <board at ovirt.org>
> Cc: announce at ovirt.org
> Sent: Wednesday, October 1, 2014 10:55:18 PM
> Subject: [ovirt-announce] oVirt Newsletter: September 2014 Updates
> 
> Events are probably the big news in this month's newsletter, with oVirt
> community members making presentations and booth appearances in no less than
> eight shows between now and mid-November.
> 
> October 16 will see the biggest event on the oVirt community calendar: the
> 2014 KVM Forum oVirt Workshop in Düsseldorf, Germany
> (http://www.ovirt.org/KVM_Forum_Workshop_Oct_2014). Register for this free
> event now and learn more about your favorite virtual data center management
> platform as well as meet fellow oVirt community members!
> 
> Other upcoming 2014 events for oVirt include:
>  
> * LinuxCon EU, Düsseldorf, Germany, Oct. 13-15
> (http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/linuxcon-europe)
> * CloudOpen Europe, Düsseldorf, Germany, Oct. 13-15
> (http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/cloudopen-europe)
> * KVM Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany, Oct. 14-16
> (http://events.linuxfoundation.org/events/kvm-forum)
> * All Things Open, Raleigh, North Carolina, Oct. 22-23
> (http://allthingsopen.org/)
> * Open World Forum 2014, Paris, France, Oct. 30-31
> (http://www.openworldforum.paris/en/)
> * Central Pennsylvania Open Source Conference, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
> (http://www.cposc.org/)
> * LISA 14, Seattle, Washington, Nov. 9-14
> (https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa14)
> 
> And, mark your calendars now for FOSDEM'15 in Brussels, Belgium on Jan.
> 31-Feb. 1, 2015!
> 
> In the Community
> 
> oVirt is very happy to announce its participation in the GNOME Foundation's
> Outreach Program for Women
> (http://www.ovirt.org/Outreach_Program_for_Women). Learn more today!
> 
> Our community is always one of our biggest strengths, and we wanted to start
> celebrating them
> (http://community.redhat.com/blog/2014/09/ovirt-community-list/). Our new
> Users and Providers page does just that
> (http://www.ovirt.org/Users_and_Providers)!
> 
> This month's case study features Nimbus Concept, a Madrid consultancy that
> combines oVirt and other open source tools to deliver cloud-based solutions
> to its customers (http://www.ovirt.org/Nimbus_Concept_Case_Study).
> 
> oVirt user IT Novum recently had their work highlighted in the German press
> as they deliver effective solutions using oVirt
> (http://www.it-director.de/home/a/open-source-fuer-das-rz.html).
> 
> UDS Enterprise is another downstream product based on the open source oVirt
> project
> (https://www.udsenterprise.com/media/filer_public/2c/98/2c980716-2810-42a3-9471-fbe603ff1d82/uds_enterprise_virtual_desktops_on_ovirt.pdf)!
> 
> oVirt Software Milestones
> 
> The journey to oVirt 3.5 continued in September, with RC2 released Sept. 12,
> and RC3 (http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_Release_Notes) on Sept. 23. There
> were also two great test days (http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_TestDay),
> where many bugs were discovered and repaired.
> 
> If you want to see more of 3.5 before its final release, break out the
> popcorn and watch our 3.5 video preview series
> (http://community.redhat.com/blog/2014/09/a-cinematic-peek-at-ovirt-3-5/)!
> 
> Meanwhile, the 3.4 branch keeps rolling along, with the release of oVirt
> 3.4.4 on Sept. 24 (http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.4.4_Release_Notes).
> 
> GoVirt, a.k.a. libgovirt, is a GObject wrapper for the oVirt REST API.
> libgovirt 0.3.1 was rolled out on Sept. 3
> (http://lists.ovirt.org/pipermail/users/2014-September/027142.html)!
> 
> Deep Dives and Technical Discussions
> 
> Robb Hamilton and Greg Sheremeta take a video tour at NCDevCon of how
> Bootstrap was used to created the new PatternFly interface, which will unify
> different community projects' interfaces, including oVirt 3.5 and above
> (http://textiles.online.ncsu.edu/online/Play/f962e776fb0b41968c8ff1a715a8ddef1d?catalog=f3393fc7-f068-4b21-84cd-23d1cebcd014).
> 
> Ravi Nori takes a Deep Dive into the Command Coordinator and Command Executor
> frameworks in the oVirt back end (http://youtu.be/V-mEttpaGL4).
> 
> Alon Bar-Lev hosts this Google Hangout to highlight the new Authentication,
> Authorization and Accounting features in the upcoming oVirt 3.5
> (http://youtu.be/aavmOAw7Fa8).
> 
> Anmol Babu examines Monitoring Gluster Deployment (UI plugin Integrated with
> Nagios Monitoring) (http://youtu.be/gvLGwFfqKOo).
> 
> Paul Heinlein ran into obstacles getting oVirt 3.3 VNC console sessions to
> launch in Mac OS X, so he set to work and now has a description of the
> problem and a workaround solution posted on GitHub
> (https://github.com/heinlein/ovirt-console).
> 
> Interested in Docker? The Gluster community has posted a quick how to
> containerize oVirt within Docker article
> (http://blog.gluster.org/2014/07/ovirt-docker/).
> 
> If you need to migrate VMware machines to KVM, then life is going to be
> better for you, according to Richard WM Jones
> (http://rwmj.wordpress.com/2014/08/29/virt-v2v-better-living-through-new-technology/).
> 
> Here's an additional V2V tutorial for shifting VMware machines to oVirt and
> RHEV
> (http://sp4wnr0ot.blogspot.com.br/2014/09/v2v-rhev-from-vmware-55-with.html).
> 
> What does persistence really mean for oVirt Node? Fabian Deutsch examines the
> question (http://dummdida.tumblr.com/post/97208762630/persistence) and
> potential solutions
> (http://dummdida.tumblr.com/post/97207385480/node-is-moving).
> 
> Jon Benedict has a theory: VMware ESX and Red Hat's OpenStack implementation,
> RDO, is way too complicated. Who are we to argue
> (http://captainkvm.com/2014/09/esx-and-rhel-osp-just-say-no/)?
> 
> When you add a new host to your oVirt Engine, your iptables rules are
> overwritten by oVirt deploy. The new rules might not meet your needs. But
> you can change this, says Eduardo Ramos
> (http://freedominterface.org/ovirt-host-iptables/).
> 
> Ramos has also examined internal/isolated networks on oVirt
> (http://freedominterface.org/internal-isolated-networks-on-ovirt/), and his
> experiences with the Shell in the Box UI plugin for oVirt
> (http://freedominterface.org/?p=321).
> 
> oVirt China has posted a Chinese translation of the oVirt Reports howto
> (http://ovirt-china.org/mediawiki/index.php/Ovirt_Reports).
> 
> Another Chinese article examines the oVirt Hosted Engine and how to get it up
> and running (http://www.bubuko.com/infodetail-384356.html).
> 
> Portuguese speakers, take note: TutoriaisGNULinux.com has posted a lot of
> helpful articles on oVirt
> (http://tutoriaisgnulinux.com/?s=ovirt&submit=Pesquisa)!
> 
> The ovirt-guest-agent project is formally starting to work on a guest agent
> for CentOS (http://www.devheads.net/people/59412)!
> 
> Working with oVirt Node and Foreman? Here'a a trick to prevent continuous
> reboots
> (http://dummdida.tumblr.com/post/97882897670/ovirt-node-and-foreman-reminder).
> 
> How to recover a VM from an "unknown" state, from Arman Khalatyan
> (http://arm2armcos.blogspot.co.il/2014/09/ovirt-343-1-recover-vm-from-unknown.html).
> 
> Chris Cowley examines Open Source Hyper-converged Infrastructure, using oVirt
> along the way
> (http://www.chriscowley.me.uk/blog/2014/09/19/open-source-hyper-converged-infrastructure/).
> 
> Ansible has a new module to handle oVirt and RHEV platform management
> (http://docs.ansible.com/ovirt_module.html).
> 
> How to set up additional subnet IPs on oVirt guests on a Hetzner dedicated
> server
> (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26096571/how-to-set-up-additional-subnet-ips-on-ovirt-guests-on-a-hetzner-dedicated-serv).
> 
> --
> 
> (With thanks to Itamar Heim!)
> 
> --
> Brian Proffitt
> 
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> oVirt
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