[one-users] New Stable Release - OpenNebula 4.8 Lemon Slice is Out!

[Thomas Stein]

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
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