[one-users] OpenNebula 1.2 beta 1 Released!

[Ruben S. Montero]

The OpenNebula team is happy to announce the availability of the first beta 
release of OpenNebula 1.2. This beta release is an important milestone for the 
project and marks that most of the components of OpenNebula are now in place. 
This beta release is aimed at testers in order to identify bugs and so that 
OpenNebula 1.2 can fully operate in production environments. 

We plan to make a somehow short release cycle for OpenNebula 1.2, targeted for 
January 2009. The final release will include the bugs reported from this beta 
release.

NEW FEATURES AND HIGHLIGHTS
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- Image Management, OpenNebula 1.2 features a general mechanism to transfer 
and clone VM images. The new module allows you to re-use VM images as you can 
mark them as clonable, and also you can save space as swap images are now 
created on-the-fly by OpenNebula.

- Networking.  The new Virtual Network Manager module allows you to define 
virtual networks and it leases IP-MAC pairs to VMs, so you do not have to keep 
track of the addresses in use. Additionally, the leases are built in such a 
way that you can easily obtain the IP form the MAC when booting the VM.

 - Robustness and scalability, OpenNebula 1.2 has been tested in the 
management of hundreds of running VMs to ensure that the code meets production 
level requirements.

RELEVANT LINKS
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- Full announcement and release info:
http://opennebula.org/doku.php?id=documentation:rn-rel1.2

- Extended and improved documentation
http://opennebula.org/doku.php?id=documentation:rn-rel1.2

- Download Link:
http://opennebula.org/cgi-bin/opennebula/download.cgi?one-1.2-beta1

Cheers!

The OpenNebula Team