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

Mon Oct 20 08:13:00 UTC 2014

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?

On 20 October 2014 08:48, Sandro Bonazzola <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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