Re: [Openqrm-user] openQRM Cloud 4.5 released

[Matt R. <m.r...@t-...>]

Hi Gwenole,

Gwenole Le bris wrote:
> Hi OpenQRM Team,
>
> This is definitely a great release, thanks a lot.

:)

>
> I have a question: will it works with VMWare ESX 4i (or 3.5i) ? or 
> juste ESX classic ?

we have tested the new VMware ESX integration with 3.5 
(3.5.0_Update_2-110271) and the latest version 4 (4.0.0-164009)

greetz + best,

Matt

>
> --
> Gwenole Le bris -- Epitech 2009
>
>
> 2009/6/30 Matt Rechenburg <m.r...@t-... 
> <mailto:m.r...@t-...>>
>
>     Hi from the openQRM Team !
>
>     With the new 4.5 version of the openQRM Data-Center Management and
>     Cloud
>     Computing platform the openQRM team archived another milestone for the
>     project. Next to lots of new features the most visible updates are the
>     new Data-Center Summary start page, a "Visual Cloud Designer"
>     (VCD) and
>     the re-worked UI for all plugins in openQRM. Here a screenshot of the
>     new Data-Center Summary display :
>
>     -> http://www.openqrm.com/userfiles/openqrm-dc-summary.png
>
>     The new start page gives a lot of useful informations like the load of
>     the complete Data-Center and the consumption of each subsystem plus
>     peaks and trends. Very helful for performance tuning and finding
>     bottle-necks.
>
>     Another eye-catcher in openQRM 4.5 is of course the "Visual Cloud
>     Designer". It provides a user friendly drag-and-drop UI to request new
>     systems from the openQRM Cloud by selecting the individual components
>     like VM-type, CPU and Network-card count, server-templates, SLA's, HA,
>     etc. and visually constructing them to a new Cloud system. It
>     feels like
>     the "shopping basket for system-administrator", just pick what you
>     need.
>
>     Please find more details about how the openQRM VCD works and looks in
>     our teaser video "Cloud Computing in 5 minutes". ->
>     http://www.openqrm.com/?q=node/150
>
>
>     Some more highlights of openQRM 4.5 :
>
>     A new plugin now integrates with Dell Equallogic Storage to support
>     direct deployment of physical systems or virtual machines from the
>     Equallogic Iscsi Target and to take advantage of its ultra fast
>     SAS disk
>     array.
>
>     Next to Nagios2 and Nagios3 Zabbix is now the third system- and
>     service-monitoring option available in openQRM 4.5.
>
>     With the "Cloud NAT" feature one can hide an openQRM Cloud within a
>     private subnet via network-address-translation (NAT). It enables
>     to run
>     the openQRM Cloud independent from the hosting-providers setup.
>
>     The automated billing system in the openQRM Cloud was made
>     plug-able and
>     now supports custom calculations including external data-sources.
>
>     An updated NetApp-plugin connects NetApp Storages with openQRM and
>     provides an automated storage management for using NetApp Filers as
>     Cloud-Storage (tested with ONTAP 7.0).
>
>     The Citrix XenServer plugin got re-implemented and is now the 6.
>     virtualization technology supported by openQRM (tested with Citrix
>     XenServer 5.5.0).
>
>     With its unique and generic Data-Center abstration layer openQRM
>     is one
>     of the very few solutions which seamlessly supports multiple
>     virtualization technologies (Xen, KVM, Citrix XenServer, VMware
>     Server 1
>     + 2, VMware ESX) plus physical systems. When it comes to fully dynamic
>     and automated provisioning including P2V ("physical to virtual"), V2P
>     ("virtual to physical") and also V2V ("virtual type A to virtual type
>     B") migration you should definitely take a look at openQRM.
>
>     The full changelog is available at
>     http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=693281&group_id=153504
>     <http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=693281&group_id=153504>
>
>     The openQRM Team also provides a free Demo of the openQRM Cloud at :
>     http://www.openqrm.com/?q=node/150
>
>     Please download the new 4.5 version of openQRM at Sourceforge.net
>     (
>     https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=153504&package_id=328920
>     <https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=153504&package_id=328920>
>     )
>     and find additional informations and more details :
>     http://www.openqrm.com/
>
>
>     Many thanks and enjoy openQRM 4.5 !
>
>     Matt Rechenburg
>     on behalf of the openQRM Team
>
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