Cool. Upgrade done (from 4.6.2). No problems so far. Good work. cheers t.
On Tuesday 12 August 2014 16:16:50 Tino Vazquez wrote: > Dear Community, > > This is a pre-announcement for the release of OpenNebula 4.8, codename > Lemon Slice, intended for the community. The official release is due > tomorrow Wednesday 13th, but meanwhile the packages are available and > the documentation in the web page has been updated. > > This release brings significant improvements in different aspects. > Sticking with our vision of bringing simplicity to cloud management, > there are improvements in the recently added Cloud View portal, > designed for end users. One significant advantage of the new portal is > the ability to control flows, groups of interconnected Virtual > Machines that conform a service. Based on this Cloud View, a Virtual > Datacenter administrators view has been included (VDCAdmin View), > which enables VDC admins to easily manage the VDC users and resources. > > An important highlight in this release is the vast improvement made to > the hybrid model. Support for two new public cloud providers has been > added, widening the range of possibilities to offload VMs in case the > local infrastructure is saturated. The hybrid model in OpenNebula > enables a centralized management of both local and remote resources > for the cloud administrator, and a transparent consumption of these > resources for the end user. With these two new additions, namely > support for Microsoft Azure and IBM SoftLayer, OpenNebula is > increasing the possibilities to build powerful, robust, cost and > performance efficient cloud infrastructures across administrative > domains and public cloud providers. > > The OneFlow component also has been improved, specially OneGate, > making sharing service information among VMs possible. Flows are now > easier than ever to build and consume, since details like the virtual > network the flow are going to use are defined later by the user, so > the administrator doesn’t have to deal with all the possible > combinations. Moreover, Virtual Networks underwent a thorough > redesign. Definition of virtual networks are no longer restricted to > the fixed and ranged model, but rather they can include any > combination of ranges to accommodate any address distribution. > > Finally, several improvements are scattered across every other > OpenNebula component: improvements in quotas management, multi boot > available through Sunstone, availability of Windows contextualization > packages, new raw device mapping datastore, better Ceph drivers, > possibility to clone images across datastores …. ladies and gentlemen, > you are in for a treat. > > This is a stable release and so a recommended update. It incorporates > important improvements since 4.6 and several bug fixes since 4.8 Beta. > Be sure to check the compatibility [1] and upgrade [2] guides. We > invite you to download it and to check the QuickStart guides, as well > as to browse the documentation, which has also been properly updated. > > As usual OpenNebula releases are named after a Nebula. The Lemon Slice > nebula (IC 3568) is a planetary nebula that is 1.3 kiloparsecs (4500 > ly) away from Earth in the constellation of Camelopardalis. It is a > relatively young nebula and has a core diameter of only about 0.4 > light years. > > The new features for Cloud View and VDCAdmin View introduced in > OpenNebula 4.8 were funded by Produban (http://www.produban.com) in > the context of the Fund a Feature Program. The new feature that > redefined virtual networks in OpenNebula 4.8 were funded by BlackBerry > (http://blackberry.com) in the context of the Fund a Feature Program. > > Lemon Slice on your infrastructure and ... relax with a Gin&Tonic, you > don't need anything else! > > - The OpenNebula Team > > [1] > http://docs.opennebula.org/4.8/release_notes/release_notes/compatibility.ht > ml [2] > http://docs.opennebula.org/4.8/release_notes/release_notes/upgrade_46.html > > [Relevant Links] > > Release Notes -> http://docs.opennebula.org/4.8/release_notes/index.html > Downloads -> http://downloads.opennebula.org/packages/opennebula-4.8.0/ > Documentation-> http://docs.opennebula.org/4.8 > SandBoxes -> http://opennebula.org/tryout/ > Quick Start Guides -> > http://docs.opennebula.org/4.8/design_and_installation/quick_starts > Screencasts -> http://opennebula.org/documentation/screencasts/ > > -- > OpenNebula - Flexible Enterprise Cloud Made Simple > > -- > 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). 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