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----- Original Message ----- From: Giles Sirett To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] ; Rohit Yadav Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2018 1:36 AM Subject: 4.11 Release announcment Hi all Rohit and I are wording the announcement for the 4.11 release I’m trying to get a few quotes for the announcements from ACS users Something along the lines of “we’re excited about this new version of Cloudstack because of….” If anybody here is able to provide a quote, can you please ping something over to me by Thursday 12:00 GMT List of whats new below New Features and Improvements · Support for XenServer 7.1 and 7.2, and improved support for VMware 6.5. Excellent · Host-HA framework and HA-provider for KVM hosts with and NFS as primary storage, and a new background polling task manager. Very useful · Secure agents communication: new certificate authority framework and a default built-in root CA provider. · New network type – L2. · CloudStack metrics exporter for Prometheus. Excellent choice · Cloudian Hyperstore Connector for CloudStack. We have our own Ceph storage based cluster. Fully tested with CloudStack with 50% less price. · Annotation feature for CloudStack entities such as hosts. · Separation of volume snapshot creation of primary storage and backing operation on secondary storage. Very useful · Limit admin access from specified CIDRs. · Expansion of Management IP Range. Good to have. · Dedication of public IPs to SSVM and CPVM. · Support for separate subnet for SSVM and CPVM. Both useful · Bypass secondary storage template copy/transfer for KVM. Awesome! · Support for multi-disk OVA template for VMware. Awesome! · Storage overprovisioning for local storage. Awesome too! · LDAP mapping with domain scope, and mapping of LDAP group to an account. · Move user across accounts. To capitalize on. Good selling point. · Support for “VSD managed” networks with Nuage Networks. Fantastic! · Extend config drive support for user data, metadata, and password (Nuage networks). Fantastic again! · Nuage domain template selection per VPC and support for network migration. · Managed storage enhancements. Very nice. · Support for watchdog timer to KVM Instances. · Support for Secondary IPv6 Addresses and Subnets. · IPv6 Prefix Delegation support in Basic Networking. · Ability to specific mac address while deploying VM or adding a nic to a VM. Great for security features deployment. · VMware dvswitch security policies configuration in network offering Same great for security features deployment. · Allow more than 7 nics to be added to a VMware VM. Very useful · Network rate usage for guest offering for VRs. · Usage metrics for VM snapshot on primary storage Wow! · Enable netscaler inline mode. Another great one. · NCC integration in CloudStack. · The retirement of Midonet network plugin. UI Improvements · High precision of metrics in the dashboard. Always nice to have more precise DB. · Event timeline – filter related events. Useful a lot. · Navigation improvements: · VRs to account, network, instances · Network and VRs to instances. · List view improvements: · As applicable, account, zone, network columns in list views. · States and related columns with icons in various infrastructure entity views. · Additional columns in several list views. · New columns for additional information. · Bulk operation support for stopping and destroying VMs (known the issue of manual refreshing required). Structural Improvements All great features · Embedded Jetty and improved CloudStack management server configuration. · Improved support for Java 8 in built artifacts/modules, packaging, and systemvm template. · Debian 9 based systemvm template: · Patches system VM without reboot, reduces VR/systemvm startup time to few tens of seconds. · Faster console proxy startup and service availability. · Improved support for redundant virtual routers, conntrackd and keepalived. · Improved strongswan provided VPN (s2s and remote access). · Packer based systemvm template generation and reduced disk size. · Several optimization and improvements. Regards, Moe Vesal, M.Sc. & Eng. CTO & Enterprise Infrastructure Architect, Cloud & BigData NuvolaCore Inc. 101B - 920 Hillside Ave., Victoria, BC V8T 1Z8 Canada Tel: (250) 475-3001 Fax: (250) 475-3002 Emails: [email protected] Webs : www.NuvolaCore.com Kind regards Giles [email protected] www.shapeblue.com @shapeblue Virus-free. www.avg.com
