Daan - excellent summary. It would be great to have direct links to the release notes and list of bug fixes.
Prodosh Prodosh Banerjee Email: [email protected] Thalwil, Switzerland Sent from my iPad > On 26.07.2014, at 20:29, [email protected] (Daan) wrot > > Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large > networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable > Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. CloudStack is > used by a number of service providers to offer public cloud services, and by > many companies to provide an on-premises (private) cloud offering, or as part > of a hybrid cloud solution. > > Version 4.4.0 contains > * 135 bugfixes > * 12 New Features > * 9 Improvements > > > Root disk resize > Allow Root disk resize which remove need to have multiple templates of the > same Operating System for different disk size. > > Root disks on Managed storage > Use of Primary Storage Plug-in for Root disks. The storage Plug-in module was > previously available only for Data disk. The Storage Plug-in allow Creation > of LUN per Virtual Disk at the Storage device which can benefit from the > Storage Appliance features such as deduplication, thin provisioning or better > usage reporting. > > VMWare Support for DRS > VMware DRS(Distributed Resource Scheduler), VM HA(High Availability): Provide > highly available resources to your workloads. Balance workloads for optimal > performance. Scale and manage computing resources without service disruption. > > Hyper-V support improvements > New features have been added to use Microsoft Windows Hyper-V as managed > hypervisor in CloudStack. > * Storage Live-Migration support > * Zone-wide primary storage > * VPC support > > Virtual Router Service Failure Alerting > Use the monitoring VR services introduced in CloudStack 4.3 to notify admins > about virtual-router failures. > > > -- > Daan
