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11 January, 2012
Kernel RHEL6 042stab044.11 stability problems and downgrade
22 December, 2011
OpenNode 6.x firewall howto and new generation opennode cli tool (opennode-tui) available


     
Roadmap

Roadmap for 2011/2012

  • Shared and local storage management support in OpenNode CLI Utility and Management Server
  • KVM VM live and offline migration support in OpenNode CLI Utility and Management Server
  • Zabbix NMS integration for statistics, trending, alerting and SLA monitoring
  • Deltacoud API integration for managing VM instances from public clouds (Amazon, Google, etc)
  • SPICE protocol support
  • Filesystem snapshots support
  • OpenNode Install Server (automated PXE installs)
  • Filesystem snapshots support
  • Network management support

OpenNode Management Server and Web Management Console aka FuncMAN preview release

ETA: alpha1 preview released as of 15th December 2010
Goal: OpenNode infrastructure remote management with FuncMAN web-based console.

Features:

  • Importing OpenNode hosts into management console
  • OpenNode hosts status listing and basic VM management tasks
  • VM creation from template (currently only OpenVZ)
  • VM resources edit forms
  • VM consoles - encrypted pure HTML5 VNC and SSH consoles (no Java, no Flash)
  • KVM VM creation from ISO image
  • OpenVZ VM live migration
  • OpenNode status TAB

OpenNode 1.1 release

ETA: stable released as of 22th June 2011
Goal: Usable RPC API and CLI central management interfaces for basic remote VM management using OpenNode servers and OVF compatible VM template format support on OpenNode.

Features:

  • OpenNode OVF compatible VM templates subscription and download management with checksum validation via opennode CLI utility
  • KVM and OpenVZ VM template creation via OpenNode CLI Utility
  • VM creation from template via remote RPC API
  • Basic KVM and OpenVZ VM management (start, stop, list) via remote RPC API
  • Basic KVM VM storage management (qcow2 file-based and LVM disks) via remote RPC API
  • OpenVZ live migration via remote RPC API
  • KVM VM creation from OpenNode OVF template (creating domain config with resource limits, unpacking VM filesystem into selected VM storage path)
  • OpenVZ VM creation from OpenNode OVF template (creating CT config and setting UBC limits)
  • OpenNode Management Server installation through local OpenNode CLI Management menu

OpenNode 1.0 release

ETA: stable version released as of 19.10.2010
Goal: Stable and locally manageable KVM/OpenVZ infrastructure node setup using ISO installer.

Features:

  • Basic linux OS OpenVZ template sets downloadable via opennode CLI utility
  • Basic KVM and OpenVZ VM management support via local CLI interfaces - virsh for KVM and vzctl for OpenVZ
  • Manual OpenVZ VM live migration between OpenNode servers
  • Updated kernel and KVM stack
  • OpenNode host registration request generation with FuncMAN management server via opennode CLI utility
  • Support for KVM VM management with virt-manager GUI