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

[Daniel Helgenberger]

On 20.10.2014 10:13, Tiemen Ruiten wrote:
> 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?
If you move your hosts to maintenance and then right click ->
'Reinstall' Engine will take care of the upgrade for you. If you are
running hosted engine, you might want to run 'yum update' on the hosts
to update to the latest engine-ha
>
> Should I expect impact on running VM's, eg. from restarting vdsm?
VDSM will be restarted. But if you do the procedure one by one host, vms
will be migrated away and it should not impact their uptime/availability
(at least for me)
>
> 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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