[one-users] New OpenNebula 3.4 Release .:: Wild Duck ::.

[Tino Vazquez]

Dear OpenNebula users,

The OpenNebula project is proud to announce the availability of the
final release of OpenNebula 3.4 (Wild Duck). The software brings
countless valuable contributions by many members of our community,
specially from Research in Motion, Logica, Terradue 2.0,
CloudWeavers,Clemson University, and Vilnius University.

This release is focused on extending the storage capabilities of OpenNebula:

 * support for multiple datastores, providing extreme flexibility in
planning the storage backend and important performance benefits:
     * balancing I/O operations between storage servers
     * defining different SLA and QoS policies for different VM types or users
     * easily scaling the cloud storage.
     * shipped with 3 basic datastores:
          * filesystem, with image transferring using ssh or shared
file systems (NFS, GlusterFS, Lustre…)
          * iSCSI/LVM to store disk images in a block device form;
          * VMware, a datastore specialized for the VMware hypervisor
that handles the vmdk format.
 * improvements in the core with the support of  cluster, which are
pool of resources that includes physical hosts, datastores and
networks for load balancing, high availability, and high performance
computing.
 * improvements in the EC2 API with the support of elastic IPs
 * revamping of the Sunstone and Self-service portals with new cool features
 * EC2 hybrid cloud driver: now supports EC2 features like tags,
security groups or VPCs.
 * revamp of oZones system to fit new developments, specially datastores

As usual, OpenNebula releases are named after a Nebula. The Wild Duck
Cluster (also known as Messier 11, or NGC 6705) is an open cluster in
the constellation Scutum. Wild Duck is now final, has been thoroughly
tested in a wide range of platforms and is fit to be used in
production environments.

Enjoy your duck,

The OpenNebula Team

LINKS

* Release Notes: http://www.opennebula.org/software:rnotes:rn-rel3.4
* Features: http://www.opennebula.org/documentation:rel3.4:features
* Downloads: http://downloads.opennebula.org/opennebula-3.4.0.tar.gz
* Documentation: http://www.opennebula.org/documentation:rel3.4

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Constantino Vázquez Blanco, MSc
Project Engineer
OpenNebula - The Open-Source Solution for Data Center Virtualization
www.OpenNebula.org | @tinova79 | @OpenNebula