Dear Community, This is a pre-announcement for OpenNebula 4.2, codename Flame, intended for the community. The official release is due this Monday 29th, but meanwhile the packages are available and the documentation in the web page has been updated. The principal aim is to strengthen the most demanded and useful features, reducing the complexity in order to better support the most used functionality.
OpenNebula 4.2 Flame includes a more polished Sunstone interface, after its redesign in 4.0; with important usability enhancements, like the inclusion of a new view for cloud users, designed to offer a minimal portal for virtual resource consumption. Datastore capacity is now monitored and used to limit the amount of storage size used by images. This is a first step to also control the runtime storage used by the VMs. The VMware backend has been completely redesigned with a more comprehensive storage scheme, more functionality and less dependencies. We have upgraded as well the Xen backend to support the new interfaces introduced in Xen 4.0. And, last but no least, OneFlow, the multi-tier application (a.k.a. service) manager, it is included and fully integrated in the distribution, with new features related to service management and elasticity/auto-scaling. Check the full release notes for details. This is a stable release and so a recommended update, since it incorporates several bug fixes since 4.2 Beta. We’ve done our best to keep compatibility with OpenNebula 4.0 Eagle, so any application developed for previous versions should work without effort. Be sure to check the compatibility and upgrade guides. As usual OpenNebula releases are named after a Nebula. The Flame Nebula (catalogued as NGC 2024 and Sh2-277) is an emission nebula in the constellation Orion. It is located about 900 to 1,500 light-years away from Earth. And last, but not least, we want to give a huge THANKS to our community, without whom OpenNebula wouldn't be anywhere nearly as good as it is today. Keep the mist at bay with Flame ;) LINKS * Complete Release Notes: http://www.opennebula.org/software:rnotes:rn-rel4.2 * Download: http://downloads.opennebula.org/ * Documentation: http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel4.2 * Compatibility guide: http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel4.2:compatibility * Upgrade guide: http://opennebula.org/documentation:rel4.2:upgrade -- Constantino Vázquez Blanco, PhD, MSc Senior Infrastructure Architect at C12G Labs www.c12g.com | @C12G | es.linkedin.com/in/tinova -- Confidentiality Warning: The information contained in this e-mail and any accompanying documents, unless otherwise expressly indicated, is confidential and privileged, and is intended solely for the person and/or entity to whom it is addressed (i.e. those identified in the "To" and "cc" box). They are the property of C12G Labs S.L.. Unauthorized distribution, review, use, disclosure, or copying of this communication, or any part thereof, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail at [email protected] and delete the e-mail and attachments and any copy from your system. C12G thanks you for your cooperation. _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.opennebula.org/listinfo.cgi/users-opennebula.org
