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. * Host-HA<http://www.shapeblue.com/host-ha-for-kvm-hosts-in-cloudstack/> framework and HA-provider for KVM hosts with and NFS as primary storage, and a new background polling task manager. * Secure agents communication: new certificate authority framework<http://www.shapeblue.com/cloudstack-ca-framework/> and a default built-in root CA provider. * New network type - L2<https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=74680920>. * CloudStack metrics exporter for Prometheus<https://prometheus.io/>. * Cloudian Hyperstore<https://cloudian.com/products/hyperstore/> Connector for CloudStack. * Annotation feature for CloudStack entities such as hosts. * Separation of volume snapshot creation of primary storage and backing operation on secondary storage. * Limit admin access from specified CIDRs. * Expansion of Management IP Range. * Dedication of public IPs to SSVM and CPVM. * Support for separate subnet for SSVM and CPVM. * Bypass secondary storage template copy/transfer for KVM. * Support for multi-disk OVA template for VMware. * Storage overprovisioning for local storage. * LDAP mapping with domain scope, and mapping of LDAP group to an account. * Move user across accounts. * Support for "VSD managed" networks with Nuage Networks. * Extend config drive support for user data, metadata, and password (Nuage networks). * Nuage domain template selection per VPC and support for network migration. * Managed storage enhancements. * 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. * VMware dvswitch security policies configuration in network offering * Allow more than 7 nics to be added to a VMware VM. * Network rate<http://docs.cloudstack.apache.org/projects/cloudstack-administration/en/latest/service_offerings.html#network-throttling> usage for guest offering for VRs. * Usage metrics for VM snapshot on primary storage * Enable netscaler inline mode. * NCC integration in CloudStack. * The retirement of Midonet network plugin. UI Improvements * High precision of metrics in the dashboard. * Event timeline - filter related events. * 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 * 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. Kind regards Giles giles.sir...@shapeblue.com www.shapeblue.com 53 Chandos Place, Covent Garden, London WC2N 4HSUK @shapeblue
