From marketing-return-4443-archive-asf-public=cust-asf.ponee.io@cloudstack.apache.org Thu Feb 8 09:08:38 2018 Return-Path: X-Original-To: archive-asf-public@eu.ponee.io Delivered-To: archive-asf-public@eu.ponee.io Received: from cust-asf.ponee.io (cust-asf.ponee.io [163.172.22.183]) by mx-eu-01.ponee.io (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFA9E18064F for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2018 09:08:38 +0100 (CET) Received: by cust-asf.ponee.io (Postfix) id 9FAE6160C4A; Thu, 8 Feb 2018 08:08:38 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: archive-asf-public@cust-asf.ponee.io Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by cust-asf.ponee.io (Postfix) with SMTP id CA34F160C3D for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2018 09:08:36 +0100 (CET) Received: (qmail 8824 invoked by uid 500); 8 Feb 2018 08:08:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact marketing-help@cloudstack.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: marketing@cloudstack.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list marketing@cloudstack.apache.org Received: (qmail 8785 invoked by uid 99); 8 Feb 2018 08:08:35 -0000 Received: from pnap-us-west-generic-nat.apache.org (HELO spamd1-us-west.apache.org) (209.188.14.142) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Thu, 08 Feb 2018 08:08:35 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spamd1-us-west.apache.org (ASF Mail Server at spamd1-us-west.apache.org) with ESMTP id 7E2F9C2F53; Thu, 8 Feb 2018 08:08:34 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at spamd1-us-west.apache.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: 1.91 X-Spam-Level: * X-Spam-Status: No, score=1.91 tagged_above=-999 required=6.31 tests=[DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, HTML_MESSAGE=2, KAM_SHORT=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_REMOTE_IMAGE=0.01] autolearn=disabled Authentication-Results: spamd1-us-west.apache.org (amavisd-new); dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=nuvolacore.com Received: from mx1-lw-eu.apache.org ([10.40.0.8]) by localhost (spamd1-us-west.apache.org [10.40.0.7]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Bq0Fk0MmgkTr; Thu, 8 Feb 2018 08:08:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from texada.islandhosting.com (texada.islandhosting.com [149.56.26.75]) by mx1-lw-eu.apache.org (ASF Mail Server at mx1-lw-eu.apache.org) with ESMTPS id 23A645F11F; Thu, 8 Feb 2018 08:08:31 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=nuvolacore.com; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Date:Subject: References:Cc:To:From:Reply-To:Message-ID:Sender:Content-Transfer-Encoding: Content-ID:Content-Description:Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender: Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID:In-Reply-To:List-Id:List-Help: List-Unsubscribe:List-Subscribe:List-Post:List-Owner:List-Archive; bh=8vLWEIgEVo4s1sA1PeMTPsgFV9+iyKANMkT1HCVD0mc=; b=d0bIvpXBVGgFm0o/UHSgvZFSf6 KY65gHcUPCxUTAy+LzxcCAjfjPYNdmm1zfFCeu35mNMaDtSrBAsrB772R0uXrMS2mZcOLgiRNOuS4 wQg3wsXAyT6YLOdjj8WsFMfl909gB7ESHdamlgXFsD+y2QrK8apVEwG5cK2QKAR1IGiUSOw+7rqjm mUowq0ThlquOBQv6m4eymf5u9ug5VKmqtM/uH20lYJMhSc5nGMGE+jg33WYWtX3ry/RVOQ6iC5K3t l4BiQrunWzQ3hN0J+ne6C1NDw5zXVY2K1bYSd8tviqfVFVbtGFD4lfxHBEa/1c3mrcL/icJg3QIKg xC4NQA4g==; Received: from d75-156-35-180.bchsia.telus.net ([75.156.35.180]:4449 helo=moe2) by texada.islandhosting.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.89_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ejhFm-001LLD-KA; Thu, 08 Feb 2018 00:08:23 -0800 Message-ID: Reply-To: "Moe@NuvolaCore.Com" From: "Moe@NuvolaCore.Com" To: , Cc: , "Rohit Yadav" References: Subject: Re: 4.11 Release announcment Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 00:08:25 -0800 Organization: NuvolaCore Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00E4_01D3A070.F100D020" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-OutGoing-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - texada.islandhosting.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - cloudstack.apache.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - NuvolaCore.com X-Get-Message-Sender-Via: texada.islandhosting.com: authenticated_id: moe@nuvolacore.com X-Authenticated-Sender: texada.islandhosting.com: moe@nuvolacore.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_00E4_01D3A070.F100D020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello All, Please check our comments below ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Giles Sirett=20 To: dev@cloudstack.apache.org=20 Cc: marketing@cloudstack.apache.org ; Rohit Yadav=20 Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2018 1:36 AM Subject: 4.11 Release announcment Hi all =20 Rohit and I are wording the announcement for the 4.11 release =20 I=E2=80=99m trying to get a few quotes for the announcements from ACS = users =20 Something along the lines of =E2=80=9Cwe=E2=80=99re excited about this = new version of Cloudstack because of=E2=80=A6.=E2=80=9D =20 If anybody here is able to provide a quote, can you please ping = something over to me by Thursday 12:00 GMT =20 List of whats new below =20 New Features and Improvements =C2=B7 Support for XenServer 7.1 and 7.2, and improved support = for VMware 6.5. Excellent =C2=B7 Host-HA framework and HA-provider for KVM hosts with and = NFS as primary storage, and a new background polling task manager. Very useful =C2=B7 Secure agents communication: new certificate authority = framework and a default built-in root CA provider. =C2=B7 New network type =E2=80=93 L2. =C2=B7 CloudStack metrics exporter for Prometheus. Excellent choice =C2=B7 Cloudian Hyperstore Connector for CloudStack. We have our own Ceph storage based cluster. Fully tested with CloudStack = with 50% less price. =C2=B7 Annotation feature for CloudStack entities such as hosts. =C2=B7 Separation of volume snapshot creation of primary storage = and backing operation on secondary storage. Very useful =C2=B7 Limit admin access from specified CIDRs. =C2=B7 Expansion of Management IP Range. Good to have. =C2=B7 Dedication of public IPs to SSVM and CPVM. =C2=B7 Support for separate subnet for SSVM and CPVM. Both useful =C2=B7 Bypass secondary storage template copy/transfer for KVM. Awesome! =C2=B7 Support for multi-disk OVA template for VMware. Awesome! =C2=B7 Storage overprovisioning for local storage. Awesome too! =C2=B7 LDAP mapping with domain scope, and mapping of LDAP group = to an account. =C2=B7 Move user across accounts. To capitalize on. Good selling point. =C2=B7 Support for =E2=80=9CVSD managed=E2=80=9D networks with = Nuage Networks. Fantastic! =C2=B7 Extend config drive support for user data, metadata, and = password (Nuage networks). Fantastic again! =C2=B7 Nuage domain template selection per VPC and support for = network migration. =C2=B7 Managed storage enhancements. Very nice. =C2=B7 Support for watchdog timer to KVM Instances. =C2=B7 Support for Secondary IPv6 Addresses and Subnets. =C2=B7 IPv6 Prefix Delegation support in Basic Networking. =C2=B7 Ability to specific mac address while deploying VM or = adding a nic to a VM. Great for security features deployment. =C2=B7 VMware dvswitch security policies configuration in network = offering Same great for security features deployment. =C2=B7 Allow more than 7 nics to be added to a VMware VM. Very useful =C2=B7 Network rate usage for guest offering for VRs. =C2=B7 Usage metrics for VM snapshot on primary storage Wow! =C2=B7 Enable netscaler inline mode. Another great one. =C2=B7 NCC integration in CloudStack. =C2=B7 The retirement of Midonet network plugin. UI Improvements=20 =C2=B7 High precision of metrics in the dashboard. Always nice to have more precise DB. =C2=B7 Event timeline =E2=80=93 filter related events. Useful a lot. =C2=B7 Navigation improvements:=20 =C2=B7 VRs to account, network, instances =C2=B7 Network and VRs to instances. =C2=B7 List view improvements:=20 =C2=B7 As applicable, account, zone, network columns in list = views. =C2=B7 States and related columns with icons in various = infrastructure entity views. =C2=B7 Additional columns in several list views. =C2=B7 New columns for additional information. =C2=B7 Bulk operation support for stopping and destroying VMs = (known the issue of manual refreshing required). Structural Improvements All great features =C2=B7 Embedded Jetty and improved CloudStack management server = configuration. =C2=B7 Improved support for Java 8 in built artifacts/modules, = packaging, and systemvm template. =C2=B7 Debian 9 based systemvm template:=20 =C2=B7 Patches system VM without reboot, reduces VR/systemvm = startup time to few tens of seconds. =C2=B7 Faster console proxy startup and service availability. =C2=B7 Improved support for redundant virtual routers, = conntrackd and keepalived. =C2=B7 Improved strongswan provided VPN (s2s and remote access). =C2=B7 Packer based systemvm template generation and reduced = disk size. =C2=B7 Several optimization and improvements. =20 Regards, =20 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: Moe@NuvolaCore.Com Webs : www.NuvolaCore.com=20 =20 =20 =20 =20 =20 Kind regards Giles =20 giles.sirett@shapeblue.com=20 www.shapeblue.com @shapeblue =20 =20 Virus-free. www.avg.com =20 ------=_NextPart_000_00E4_01D3A070.F100D020 Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable =EF=BB=BF
Hello All,
 
Please check our comments below
 
----- Original Message -----=20
From: Giles=20 Sirett
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=20 release

 

I=E2=80=99m trying to get a few quotes for the = announcements from ACS=20  users

 

 Something along the lines of = =E2=80=9Cwe=E2=80=99re excited=20 about this new version of Cloudstack because = of=E2=80=A6.=E2=80=9D

  

If anybody here is able to provide a quote, can you = please=20 ping something over to me by Thursday 12:00 GMT

 

 List of whats new = below

 

 New=20 Features and Improvements

=C2=B7       =20 Support for=20 XenServer 7.1 and 7.2, and improved support for VMware 6.5.

Excellent

=C2=B7       =20 Host-HA=20 framework and HA-provider for KVM hosts with and NFS as primary storage, = and a=20 new background polling task manager.

Very useful

=C2=B7       =20 Secure=20 agents communication: new certificate=20 authority framework and a default built-in root CA=20 provider.

=C2=B7       =20 New network=20 type =E2=80=93 L2.

=C2=B7       =20 CloudStack=20 metrics exporter for Prometheus.

Excellent choice

=C2=B7       =20 Cloudian=20 Hyperstore Connector for CloudStack.

We have our own Ceph storage based cluster. Fully tested = with=20 CloudStack with 50% less price.

=C2=B7       =20 Annotation=20 feature for CloudStack entities such as = hosts.

=C2=B7       =20 Separation=20 of volume snapshot creation of primary storage and backing operation on=20 secondary storage.

Very useful

=C2=B7       =20 Limit admin=20 access from specified CIDRs.

=C2=B7       =20 Expansion of=20 Management IP Range.

Good to have.

=C2=B7       =20 Dedication=20 of public IPs to SSVM and CPVM.

=C2=B7       =20 Support for=20 separate subnet for SSVM and CPVM.

Both useful

=C2=B7       =20 Bypass=20 secondary storage template copy/transfer for KVM.

Awesome!

=C2=B7       =20 Support for=20 multi-disk OVA template for VMware.

Awesome!

=C2=B7       =20 Storage=20 overprovisioning for local storage.

Awesome too!

=C2=B7       =20 LDAP mapping=20 with domain scope, and mapping of LDAP group to an = account.

=C2=B7       =20 Move user=20 across accounts.

To capitalize on. Good selling = point.

=C2=B7       =20 Support for=20 =E2=80=9CVSD managed=E2=80=9D networks with Nuage Networks.

Fantastic!

=C2=B7       =20 Extend=20 config drive support for user data, metadata, and password (Nuage=20 networks).

Fantastic = again!

=C2=B7       =20 Nuage domain=20 template selection per VPC and support for network=20 migration.

=C2=B7       =20 Managed=20 storage enhancements.

Very nice.

=C2=B7       =20 Support for=20 watchdog timer to KVM Instances.

=C2=B7       =20 Support for=20 Secondary IPv6 Addresses and Subnets.

=C2=B7       =20 IPv6 Prefix=20 Delegation support in Basic Networking.

=C2=B7       =20 Ability to=20 specific mac address while deploying VM or adding a nic to a = VM.

Great for security features = deployment.

=C2=B7       =20 VMware=20 dvswitch security policies configuration in network offering

Same great for security features=20 deployment.

=C2=B7       =20 Allow more=20 than 7 nics to be added to a VMware VM.

Very useful

=C2=B7       =20 Network=20 rate usage for guest offering for = VRs.

=C2=B7       =20 Usage=20 metrics for VM snapshot on primary storage

Wow!

=C2=B7       =20 Enable=20 netscaler inline mode.

Another great one.

=C2=B7       =20 NCC=20 integration in CloudStack.

=C2=B7       =20 The=20 retirement of Midonet network plugin.

UI=20 Improvements =C2=B7       =20 High=20 precision of metrics in the dashboard.

Always nice to have more precise = DB.

=C2=B7       =20 Event=20 timeline =E2=80=93 filter related events.

Useful a lot.

=C2=B7       =20 Navigation=20 improvements:

=C2=B7        =20 VRs to=20 account, network, instances

=C2=B7        =20 Network and=20 VRs to instances.

=C2=B7       =20 List view=20 improvements:

=C2=B7        =20 As = applicable, account, zone, network columns in list = views.

=C2=B7        =20 States and=20 related columns with icons in various infrastructure entity=20 views.

=C2=B7        =20 Additional=20 columns in several list views.

=C2=B7       =20 New columns=20 for additional information.

=C2=B7       =20 Bulk=20 operation support for stopping and destroying VMs (known the issue of = manual=20 refreshing required).

Structural=20 Improvements All great features =C2=B7       =20 Embedded=20 Jetty and improved CloudStack management server=20 configuration.

=C2=B7       =20 Improved=20 support for Java 8 in built artifacts/modules, packaging, and systemvm=20 template.

=C2=B7       =20 Debian 9=20 based systemvm template:

=C2=B7        =20 Patches=20 system VM without reboot, reduces VR/systemvm startup time to few tens = of=20 seconds.

=C2=B7        =20 Faster=20 console proxy startup and service availability.

=C2=B7        =20 Improved=20 support for redundant virtual routers, conntrackd and=20 keepalived.

=C2=B7        =20 Improved=20 strongswan provided VPN (s2s and remote access).

=C2=B7        =20 Packer based=20 systemvm template generation and reduced disk = size.

=C2=B7        =20 Several=20 optimization and improvements.

 

 Regards,
 
Moe Vesal, M.Sc. & Eng.
CTO = &=20 Enterprise Infrastructure Architect, Cloud & BigData
NuvolaCore=20 Inc.
101B - 920 Hillside Ave.,
Victoria, BC V8T=20 1Z8
Canada
Tel:  (250) 475-3001  Fax: (250)=20 475-3002
Emails: Moe@NuvolaCore.Com Webs : www.NuvolaCore.com =

 

 

 

 

 

Kind=20 regards

Giles

 

giles.sirett@shapeblue.com 
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