[one-users] OpenNebula 3.6 (Lagoon) is out!

[Jaime Melis]

Dear OpenNebula users,

The OpenNebula project is proud to announce the availability of
OpenNebula 3.6 (Lagoon). This release is focused on stabilizing the
features introduced in OpenNebula 3.4, improving the performance of
some existing features, and adding new features for virtualization
management and integration with the new OpenNebula Marketplace.

OpenNebula 3.6 features a new hotplug mechanism for disk volumes that
supports attaching either volatile volumes or existing images to a
running VM. Also for OpenNebula 3.6 we have re-written from scratch
the Quota and Accounting tools, so now they are included in the
OpenNebula core to enhance their integration with the existing AuthZ &
AuthN mechanisms and other related tools (e.g. Sunstone). There are
some other new features like VM rescheduling, hard reboots, cloning of
disk images, support for per-cluster definition of system datastores…

OpenNebula 3.6 also features improvements in other systems, especially
in Sunstone's interface with the redesign of several tabs as well as
in the OpenNebula Zones where we got rid of the datamapper dependency
to ease the packaging of OpenNebula.

Last but not least, OpenNebula 3.6 is fully integrated with the new
OpenNebula Marketplace. Any user of an OpenNebula cloud can very
easily find and deploy virtual appliances through familiar tools like
the SunStone GUI or the OpenNebula CLI. The OpenNebula Marketplace is
also of the interest of any software developer to quickly distribute a
new appliance, making it available to all OpenNebula deployments
worldwide.

This is a final release and it is aimed at production environments,
any infrastructure running a previous version is recommended to
upgrade.

As usual OpenNebula releases are named after a Nebula. The Lagoon
Nebula [1] (also known as M8, or NGC 6523) is a giant interstellar
cloud in the constellation Sagittarius.

Relevant Links:
- Release Notes: http://www.opennebula.org/software:rnotes:rn-rel3.6
- Features: http://www.opennebula.org/documentation:rel3.6:features
- Downloads: http://downloads.opennebula.org/
- Documentation: http://www.opennebula.org/documentation:rel3.6
- Marketplace: http://marketplace.c12g.com/

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagoon_Nebula

-- 
Jaime Melis
Project Engineer
OpenNebula - The Open Source Toolkit for Cloud Computing
www.OpenNebula.org | jmelis at opennebula.org