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The oVirt
project, the open-source, openly governed KVM virtualization management
project, today announced the general availability of oVirt 3.5, a
community-driven open virtual datacenter management platform. This
latest community release includes several new features, including live
merge, importing storage domains, advanced scheduling with optaplanner,
and Foreman integration.
Developed by a global community, oVirt offers advanced virtualization
capabilities, including high availability, live VM migration, live
storage migration, the capability to self-host the oVirt engine on a
managed virtual machine, and more. As the upstream development project
for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and other commercial products,
oVirt's integrated virtualization enables enterprises to manage virtual
machines with a robust toolset, without the need to re-develop
applications to conform to cloud platforms' APIs. If cloud is the way a
company wants to go, oVirt shares services with Red Hat's cloud
solutions including RDO, Red Hat's community OpenStack distribution, to
improve key building blocks for private and public cloud deployments and
allow upstream developments to make their way into Red Hat's
enterprise-hardened cloud and virtualization solutions.
Notable enhancements to oVirt 3.5 include:
Live Merge: If an image has one or more snapshots, oVirt 3.5's
merge command will combine the data of one volume into another. Live
merges can be performed with data pulled from one snapshot into
another snapshot. The engine can merge multiple disks at the same time
and each merge can independently fail or succeed in each operation.
Import Storage Domain: This latest release expands
oVirt's feature of importing ISOs and exporting storage domains to
expand support for importing an existing data storage domain. Based on
information stored in the storage domain, oVirt can revive entities such
as disks, virtual machines, and templates in the setup of any data
center to which the storage domain is attached.
Advanced Foreman Integration: oVirt 3.5 adds the capability to
provision and add hypervisors to oVirt from bare metal. Foreman is a
complete lifecycle management tool for physical and virtual servers.
Through deep integration with configuration management, DHCP, DNS, TFTP,
and PXE-based unattended installations, Foreman manages every stage of
the lifecycle of your physical or virtual servers. Integrating
Foreman with oVirt helps add hypervisor hosts managed by Foreman to
the oVirt engine.
oVirt 3.5 also provides enhanced Authentication,
Authorization and Accounting support, a new
interface based on the popular PatternFly interface, and a new
optimizer tool integration that will guide users on how to reduce
resource fragmentation. The enhanced self hosted-engine now supports
iSCSI storage as requested by the community. oVirt 3.5 will also feature
JSON-RPC support for message-based communication, as well as a new oVirt
appliance that can be launched in an existing virtual machine manager as
a complete oVirt machine, ready for operation.
A complete list of oVirt 3.5 features is available on the oVirt
3.5 release notes page. oVirt 3.5 has improved upon the many
features already in this robust platform, as well as new features
designed to make virtual machine management an easier process for system
administrators and developers.
"It is great to see yet another feature-packed version of oVirt being
released. We added both advanced features like Foreman bare-metal
deployment and Optaplanner
scheduling improvements, while also keeping an eye on ease of deployment
like virtual appliances for the Engine
and Neutron
components of oVirt," said Itamar Heim, Director of Software
Engineering, Red Hat. "Most of all I'm happy to see more companies using
and providing solutions and services around oVirt, like Wind River and
Nimbus Concept."
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About the oVirt Project
The oVirt project is an open virtualization project providing a
feature-rich server virtualization management system with advanced
capabilities for hosts and guests, including high availability, live
migration, storage management, system scheduler and more. Powered by KVM
on Linux, oVirt offers developer choice of a stand-alone hypervisor or
can be installed on top of an existing Linux platform on an easy-to-use
web interface. Some technologies developed in the oVirt community may
later be integrated into Red Hat virtualization products, and they are
developed in oVirt under a free and open source license so other
communities and projects are free to study, adopt and modify them.
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