On 20.10.2014 10:50, Sandro Bonazzola wrote: > Il 20/10/2014 10:13, Tiemen Ruiten ha scritto: >> Hello, >> >> Last week I upgraded to 3.5 and on the engine side everything went >> absolutely fine. Now I'm wondering what to do about my hosts (full CentOS 6 >> installs). Is the upgrade something the engine takes care of when I set the >> compatibility version to 3.5? Or should I install the ovirt-release35 rpm >> and run yum update on all hosts? >> >> Should I expect impact on running VM's, eg. from restarting vdsm? > > Looks like we have a documentation gap here. > I tried to search the oVirt site for pointing you to a section describing how > to upgrade hosts but did not found one. > > I think that we need to finish > http://www.ovirt.org/DraftInstallationGuide > and probably prepare an upgrade guide too. > > You'll need to install the ovirt-release35 rpm on your hosts since the engine > is not able to add the new repository (yet? maybe an RFE on this should > be filled for easing the upgrade process of the hosts). A very good idea. I took the liberty filing this RFE [1]
[1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1154620 > >> On 20 October 2014 08:48, Sandro Bonazzola <sbona...@redhat.com >> <mailto:sbona...@redhat.com>> wrote: >> >> Il 19/10/2014 16:53, Daniel Helgenberger ha scritto: >> > Congratulations! Hope you could get your party. >> > >> > Sandro, as I know you always like to hear things like this: >> > I just upgraded my oVirt 3.4.4 installation to 3.5 and everything went >> > really well (apart from some package siging / deps; but these are >> really >> > not your issues). >> >> I really like when someone report everything goes fine :-) >> >> > >> > Tomorrow I start checking out the new stuff. >> > >> > Thank you! I really appreciate the work you do. >> > >> > Daniel >> > >> > On 17.10.2014 14:46, Sandro Bonazzola wrote: >> >> The oVirt Project is pleased to announce the general availability of >> its sixth formal release, oVirt 3.5, as of October 17, 2014. >> >> >> >> oVirt is an open source alternative to VMware vSphere, and provides >> an excellent KVM management interface for multi-node virtualization. oVirt is >> >> available now for Fedora 19, Fedora 20, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5, >> and CentOS 6.5 (or similar) and allow you to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux >> 7 and >> >> CentOS 7 too as node and for running Hosted Engine. >> >> >> >> New features 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 is 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. >> >> >> >> >> >> Enhanced Authentication, Authorization and Accounting Support >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> A new architecture has been built for oVirt 3.5's authentication, >> authorization and accounting (AAA) system. The enhancements will provide a >> clear >> >> separation of authentication from authorization and provide a >> developer API to develop custom extensions for authentication and >> authorization. >> >> >> >> >> >> New PatternFly Interface >> >> ------------------------ >> >> oVirt 3.5 will have a new look and feel, using PatternFly, the open >> interface project. The new look and feel aims to maintain the colors and >> spirit >> >> associated with oVirt, while updating it with a new, modern, sleek, >> and minimal look. The minimal design allows complex screens to look cleaner >> and >> >> airier, and lets the user focus on the data and the tasks by removing >> all extraneous visual elements. >> >> >> >> >> >> Advanced Scheduling with Optaplanner >> >> ------------------------------------ >> >> The Optaplanner is a new service that takes a snapshot of a cluster >> (a list of hosts and VMs) and computes an optimized VM-to-Host assignment >> >> solution. Optimization will is done on per Cluster basis. The >> administrator can use this information as a hint to tweak the cluster to >> better >> utilize >> >> resources. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> This release of oVirt also includes numerous bug fixes. See the >> release notes [1] for a complete list of the new features and bugs fixed. >> >> >> >> A new repository has been created and will be automatically enabled >> by installing / upgrading ovirt-release35 package. >> >> See release notes page for further instructions about install / >> upgrade. >> >> >> >> A new oVirt Live iso is also available [2] and a new oVirt Node iso >> will be available soon. >> >> >> >> [1] http://www.ovirt.org/OVirt_3.5_Release_Notes >> >> [2] >> http://resources.ovirt.org/pub/ovirt-3.5/iso/ovirt-live-el6-3.5.0.iso >> >> >> > >> >> >> -- >> Sandro Bonazzola >> Better technology. Faster innovation. 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