[one-users] OpenNebula 4.6 Carina is Out!

[Tino Vazquez]

Dear Community,

This is a pre-announcement for OpenNebula 4.6, codename Carina,
intended for the community. The official release is due tomorrow Tuesday
29th, but meanwhile the packages are available and the documentation
in the web page has been updated. This release brings many new features and
stabilises features that were introduced in previous versions.

OpenNebula 4.6 introduces important improvements in several areas. The
provisioning model has been greatly simplify by supplementing user
groups with resource providers. This extended model, the Virtual Data
Center, offers an integrated and comprehensive framework for resource
allocation and isolation. Another important new feature has taken
place in the OpenNebula core. It has undergone a minor re-design of
its internal data model to allow federation of OpenNebula daemons.
With OpenNebula Carina your users can access resource providers from
multiple datacenters in a federated way.

Starting with Carina the OpenNebula team has started a journey to deliver a
more intuitive and simpler provisioning experience for users. Our goal
is level the final user usability with the system administration and
operation ones. First, the Sunstone graphical interface has been
tweaked to help the user workflows. It has also been improved in order
to support the new Marketplace version, which makes even easier for a
user to get a virtual application up and running. It features a
simplified cloud view, to facilitate easy yet powerful cloud
provisioning for end users.

Finally, some other areas have received the attention of the OpenNebula
developers, like for example a better Gluster support through
libgfapi, improved access to large pools pagination, or optionally
limit the resources exposed by a host, among many others are included
in Carina.

This is a stable release and so a recommended update that incorporates
several bug fixes since 4.6 RC. We've done our best to keep
compatibility with OpenNebula 4.4, so any application developed for
previous versions should work without effort. In any case, be sure to
check the compatibility and upgrade 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.

Thanks the community members and users who have contributed to this
software release by being active with the discussions, answering user
questions, or providing patches for bugfixes, features and
documentation.

As usual OpenNebula releases are named after a Nebula. The Carina
Nebula (NGC 3372) is one of the largest nebulae the sky. It can only
be seen from the southern hemisphere, in the Carina constellation.

The new features for VDCs, Federations and OVA support in the
Marketplace introduced in OpenNebula 4.6 were funded by Produban
(http://www.produban.com) in the context of the Fund a Feature
Program.

Take Carina -para pa pa- for a joy ride

-- The OpenNebula Team

[Relevant Links]

Release Notes: http://docs.opennebula.org/4.6/release_notes/index.html
Downloads: http://downloads.opennebula.org/packages/opennebula-4.6.0/
Documentation: http://docs.opennebula.org/4.6/

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Constantino Vázquez Blanco, PhD, MSc
Senior Infrastructure Architect at C12G Labs
www.c12g.com | @C12G | es.linkedin.com/in/tinova

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