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software:rnotes:rn-rel4.4 [2013/12/02 10:57] – nachosoftware:rnotes:rn-rel4.4 [2013/12/16 16:49] – [What's New in OpenNebula 4.4] nacho
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-**Dec 2nd, 2013**. The OpenNebula team is pleased to approach winter with the immediate availability of the final version of OpenNebula 4.4, codename Retina. As a project driven by user needs, this release includes important features that meet real demands from production environments, with a focus on optimization of storage, monitoring, cloud bursting, and public cloud interfaces.+**Dec 3rd, 2013**. The OpenNebula team is pleased to approach winter with the immediate availability of the final version of OpenNebula 4.4, codename Retina. As a project driven by user needs, this release includes important features that meet real demands from production environments, with a focus on optimization of storage, monitoring, cloud bursting, and public cloud interfaces.
  
 OpenNebula Retina includes support for multiple system datastores, which enables a much more efficient usage of the storage resources for running Virtual Machines. This feature ships with different scheduling policies for storage load balancing, intended to instruct OpenNebula to spread the running Virtual Machines across different storage mediums to optimize their use. This translates in the ability to define more than one disk (or other backend) to hold running VMs in a particular cluster. Monitoring subsystem in OpenNebula underwent a major redesign as well, effectively switching from a pulling mechanism to a pushing model, with the implications in scalability improvements. OpenNebula Retina includes support for multiple system datastores, which enables a much more efficient usage of the storage resources for running Virtual Machines. This feature ships with different scheduling policies for storage load balancing, intended to instruct OpenNebula to spread the running Virtual Machines across different storage mediums to optimize their use. This translates in the ability to define more than one disk (or other backend) to hold running VMs in a particular cluster. Monitoring subsystem in OpenNebula underwent a major redesign as well, effectively switching from a pulling mechanism to a pushing model, with the implications in scalability improvements.
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 As usual OpenNebula releases are named after a Nebula. The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retina_Nebula|Retina Nebula]] (IC 4406) is a planetary nebula near the western border of the constellation Lupus, the Wolf. It has dust clouds and has the shape of a torus.  As usual OpenNebula releases are named after a Nebula. The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retina_Nebula|Retina Nebula]] (IC 4406) is a planetary nebula near the western border of the constellation Lupus, the Wolf. It has dust clouds and has the shape of a torus. 
  
 +====== What is Hot in OpenNebula 4.4? ======
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 ======= What's New in OpenNebula 4.4 ======= ======= What's New in OpenNebula 4.4 =======
  
 In the following list you can check the highlights of OpenNebula 4.4 Retina organised by component ([[http://dev.opennebula.org/projects/opennebula/issues?query_id=42|a detailed list of changes can be found here]]): In the following list you can check the highlights of OpenNebula 4.4 Retina organised by component ([[http://dev.opennebula.org/projects/opennebula/issues?query_id=42|a detailed list of changes can be found here]]):
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 ===== OpenNebula Core: End-user functionality ===== ===== OpenNebula Core: End-user functionality =====
  
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 ====== Migrating from OpenNebula 4.2 ====== ====== Migrating from OpenNebula 4.2 ======
  
-A detailed upgrade process can be found in the documentation. For a complete set of changes to migrate from a 4.4 installation please refer to the [[documentation:rel4.4:compatibility|Compatibility Guide]].+A detailed [[documentation:rel4.4:upgrade|upgrade process]] can be found in the documentation. For a complete set of changes to migrate from a 4.4 installation please refer to the [[documentation:rel4.4:compatibility|Compatibility Guide]]. 
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 +:!: With the new [[documentation:rel4.4:system_ds#multiple_system_datastore_setups|multi-system DS]] functionality, it is now required that the system DS is also part of the cluster. If you are using System DS 0 for Hosts inside a Cluster, any VM saved (stop, suspend, undeploy) **will not be able to be resumed after the upgrade process**. 
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-:!: After OpenNebula upgrade make use you run "''onehost sync''" to update monitoring probes.+:!: After the OpenNebula upgrade make sure you run "''onehost sync''" to update the monitoring probes.
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