[one-users] OpenNebula 4.10 Beta Is Ready for Testing

[Tino Vazquez]

Dear OpenNebula users,

The OpenNebula project is proud to announce the availability of
OpenNebula 4.10 Beta (Fox Fur). This release ships with several
improvements in different subsystems and components. But, more
importantly, it features a little revolution in shape of vCenter
support. This is the first OpenNebula release that allows to
automatically import an existing infrastructure, since the new vCenter
drivers allow to import Clusters and Virtual Machines from a vCenter
installation, significantly smoothing the set up curve.

The concept of the vCenter drivers is akin to the hybrid cloud
approach in the sense that OpenNebula will delegate a number of
aspects to vCenter, instead of pursuing the management of almost every
aspect as it traditionally does with the three supported hypervisors:
XEN, KVM and VMware ESX. OpenNebula will use pre defined Virtual
Machine Templates existing in the vCenter set up to launch Virtual
Machines, very much like it does in its hybrid drivers to access
Amazon EC2, IBM SoftLayer and Microsoft Azure, although offering extra
features like for instance VNC support and more lifecycle actions.

We are aware that in production environments, access to professional,
efficient support is a must, and this is why we have introduced an
integrated tab in Sunstone to access OpenNebula Systems (the company
behind OpenNebula, formerly C12G) professional support. In this way,
support tickets management can be performed through Sunstone, avoiding
disruption of work and enhancing productivity.

Finally, several improvements are scattered across every other
OpenNebula component (check the full list of changes in the
development portal):

- a new iteration for the features introduced in Lemon Slice to the
OpenNebula networking system
- improvements in the hybrid drivers, including better Sunstone support
- persistency of  snapshots across the VM lifecycle
- the ability to change the ISO file attached to a CDROM media dynamically
- and many other bugfixes that stabilized features introduced in Lemon Slice

As usual OpenNebula releases are named after a Nebula. The Fox Fur
Nebula (IC 3568) is located in Monoceros and included in the NGC 2264
Region.

The OpenNebula team is now set to bug-fixing mode. Note that this is a
beta release aimed at testers and developers to try the new features
(not production environments) and send a more than welcomed feedback
for the final release.

Features for network extension model refined in OpenNebula 4.10 were
funded by BlackBerry in the context of the Fund a Feature Program.

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Links
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* Release Notes    http://docs.opennebula.org/4.10/release_notes/index.html
* Downloads          http://downloads.opennebula.org/packages/opennebula-4.9.80/
* Documentation   http://docs.opennebula.org/4.10/
* vCenter drivers
http://docs.opennebula.org/4.10/administration/virtualization/vcenterg.html

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Constantino Vázquez Blanco, PhD, MSc
Senior Infrastructure Architect | Head of Research at OpenNebula
Systems (formerly C12G Labs)
cvazquez at OpenNebula.Systems | @OpenNebula

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