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<chapter id="welcome-4.2">
- <title>Welcome to &PRODUCT; 4.2</title>
- <para>Welcome to the 4.2.0 release of &PRODUCT;, the second major release from the Apache
- CloudStack project since its graduation from the Apache Incubator. &PRODUCT; 4.2 includes more
- than 70 new features and enhancements. The focus of the release is on three major
- areas:</para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Improved support for both legacy-style and cloud-style workloads</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>New third-party plug-in architecture</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Networking enhancements</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <para>In addition to these major new areas of functionality, &PRODUCT; 4.2 provides many
- additional enhancements in a variety of product areas. All of the new features are summarized
- later in this Release Note.</para>
+ <title>Welcome to &PRODUCT; 4.2.1</title>
+ <para>Welcome to the 4.2.1 release of &PRODUCT;. This version is the first defect fix release of
+ &PRODUCT; in the 4.2.<emphasis role="italic">x</emphasis> line.</para>
<para>This document contains information specific to this release of &PRODUCT;, including
upgrade instructions from prior releases, new features added to &PRODUCT;, API changes, and
issues fixed in the release. For installation instructions, please see the <ulink
@@ -55,766 +39,142 @@ under the License.
<para>If you find any errors or problems in this guide, please see <xref linkend="feedback"/>.
We hope you enjoy working with &PRODUCT;!</para>
</chapter>
- <chapter id="version-4.2">
- <title>What's New in 4.2.0</title>
- <para>&PRODUCT; 4.2 includes the following new features.</para>
- <section id="workloads">
- <title>Features to Support Heterogeneous Workloads</title>
- <para>The following new features help &PRODUCT; 4.2 better support both legacy and cloud-era
- style zones.</para>
- <section id="regions">
- <title>Regions</title>
- <para>To increase reliability of the cloud, you can optionally group resources into
- geographic regions. A region is the largest available organizational unit within a cloud
- deployment. A region is made up of several availability zones, where each zone is
- equivalent to a datacenter. Each region is controlled by its own cluster of Management
- Servers, running in one of the zones. The zones in a region are typically located in close
- geographical proximity. Regions are a useful technique for providing fault tolerance and
- disaster recovery.</para>
- <para>By grouping zones into regions, the cloud can achieve higher availability and
- scalability. User accounts can span regions, so that users can deploy VMs in multiple,
- widely-dispersed regions. Even if one of the regions becomes unavailable, the services are
- still available to the end-user through VMs deployed in another region. And by grouping
- communities of zones under their own nearby Management Servers, the latency of
- communications within the cloud is reduced compared to managing widely-dispersed zones
- from a single central Management Server.</para>
- <para>Usage records can also be consolidated and tracked at the region level, creating
- reports or invoices for each geographic region.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="object-store">
- <title>Object Storage Plugin Architecture</title>
- <para>Artifacts such as templates, ISOs and snapshots are kept in storage which &PRODUCT;
- refers to as secondary storage. To improve scalability and performance, as when a number
- of hosts access secondary storage concurrently, object storage can be used for secondary
- storage. Object storage can also provide built-in high availability capability. When using
- object storage, access to secondary storage data can be made available across multiple
- zones in a region. This is a huge benefit, as it is no longer necessary to copy templates,
- snapshots etc. across zones as would be needed in an NFS-only environment.</para>
- <para>Object storage is provided through third-party software such as Amazon Simple Storage
- Service (S3) or any other object storage that supports the S3 interface. These third party
- object storages can be integrated with &PRODUCT; by writing plugin software that uses the
- object storage plugin capability introduced in &PRODUCT; 4.2. Several new pluggable
- service interfaces are available so that different storage providers can develop
- vendor-specific plugins based on the well-defined contracts that can be seamlessly managed
- by &PRODUCT;.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="zone-wide-primary-storage">
- <title>Zone-Wide Primary Storage</title>
- <para>(Supported on KVM and VMware)</para>
- <para>In &PRODUCT; 4.2, you can provision primary storage on a per-zone basis. Data volumes
- in the primary storage can be attached to any VM on any host in the zone.</para>
- <para>In previous &PRODUCT; versions, each cluster had its own primary storage. Data in the
- primary storage was directly available only to VMs within that cluster. If a VM in a
- different cluster needed some of the data, it must be copied from one cluster to another,
- using the zone's secondary storage as an intermediate step. This operation was
- unnecessarily time-consuming.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="vmware-datacenter">
- <title>VMware Datacenter Now Visible As a &PRODUCT; Zone</title>
- <para>In order to support zone-wide functions for VMware, changes have been made so that
- &PRODUCT; is now aware of VMware Datacenters and can map each Datacenter to a &PRODUCT;
- zone. Previously, &PRODUCT; was only aware of VMware Clusters, a smaller organizational
- unit than Datacenters. This implies that a single &PRODUCT; zone could possibly contain
- clusters from different VMware Datacenters. In order for zone-wide functions, such as
- zone-wide primary storage, to work for VMware hosts, &PRODUCT; has to make sure that a
- zone contains only a single VMware Datacenter. Therefore, when you are creating a new
- &PRODUCT; zone, you will now be able to select a VMware Datacenter for the zone. If you
- are provisioning multiple VMware Datacenters, each one will be set up as a single zone in
- &PRODUCT;. </para>
- <note>
- <para>If you are upgrading from a previous &PRODUCT; version, and your existing deployment
- contains a zone with clusters from multiple VMware Datacenters, that zone will not be
- forcibly migrated to the new model. It will continue to function as before. However, any
- new zone-wide operations, such as zone-wide primary storage, will not be available in
- that zone.</para>
- </note>
- <para/>
- </section>
+ <chapter id="supported-os">
+ <title>Compatibility Matrix</title>
+ <para>This section describes the operating systems, browsers, and hypervisors that have been
+ newly tested and certified compatible with &PRODUCT; 4.2.1. Most earlier OS and hypervisor
+ versions are also still supported for use with 4.2.1 It might work well on other platforms,
+ but the platforms listed below are the ones that are specifically tested against and are more
+ likely to be able to help troubleshoot if you run into any issues.</para>
+ <section id="management-server">
+ <title>Supported OS Versions for Management Server</title>
+ <para>This section lists the operating systems that are supported for running &PRODUCT;
+ Management Server. Note that specific versions of the operating systems are tested, so
+ compatibility with CentOS 6.3 may not indicate compatibility with CentOS 6.2, 6.1 and so
+ on.</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>RHEL versions 5.5, 6.2, 6.3, and 6.4</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>CentOS versions 6.3, and 6.4</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Ubuntu 12.04 LTS</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
</section>
- <section id="third-party-plugin">
- <title>Third-Party UI Plugin Framework</title>
- <para>Using the new third-party plugin framework, you can write and install extensions to
- &PRODUCT;. The installed and enabled plugins will appear in the UI.</para>
- <para>The basic procedure for adding a UI plugin is explained in the Developer Guide. In
- summary, the plugin developer creates the plugin code itself (in Javascript), a thumbnail
- image, the plugin listing, and a CSS file. The &PRODUCT; administrator adds the folder
- containing the plugin code under the &PRODUCT; PLUGINS folder and adds the plugin name to a
- configuration file (plugins.js).</para>
- <para>The next time the user refreshes the UI in the browser, the plugin will appear under the
- Plugins button in the left navigation bar.</para>
+ <section id="supported-hv">
+ <title>Supported Hypervisor Versions</title>
+ <para>CloudStack supports three hypervisor families, XenServer with XAPI, KVM, and VMware with
+ vSphere.</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>CentOS 6.2 with KVM</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 with KVM</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>XenServer 6.0.2 (with Hotfix)</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>XenServer 6.1</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>VMware vSphere/vCenter 5.1</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Bare metal hosts are supported, which have no hypervisor. These hosts can run the
+ following operating systems:</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>RHEL or CentOS, v6.2 or 6.3</para>
+ <note>
+ <para>Use libvirt version 0.9.10 for CentOS 6.3</para>
+ </note>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Fedora 17</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Ubuntu 12.04</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ <para>For more information, see the Hypervisor Compatibility Matrix in the &PRODUCT;
+ Installation Guide.</para>
</section>
- <section id="networking">
- <title>Networking Enhancements</title>
- <para>The following new features provide additional networking functionality in &PRODUCT;
- 4.2.</para>
- <section id="ipv6">
- <title>IPv6 </title>
- <para>&PRODUCT; 4.2 introduces initial support for IPv6. This feature is provided as a
- technical preview only. Full support is planned for a future release.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="advancedsg">
- <title>Security Groups Isolation in Advanced Zone </title>
- <para>(Supported on XenServer and KVM)</para>
- <para>Isolation of VM Traffic is achieved using Security Groups in Basic Zones. For Advanced zone,
- traffic can be isolated on a per network basis using VLANs. Advanced Zones support shared as
- well as isolated networks. This functionality uses security group rules to isolate guest VM
- within a shared network in advanced zone. And in Advanced zone, VM can be on multiple shared
- networks, different NICs of a VM can have different SG sets, says SG works on NIC level in
- Advanced zone.</para>
- <para>This functionality was added to &PRODUCT; 2.2.X and 3.0.X products, but not in &PRODUCT; 4.0.X
- and 4.1.X products. The users who use this functionality in older verions can upgrade there
- platforms to &PRODUCT; 4.2.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="portable-ip">
- <title>Portable IPs</title>
- <para>Portable IPs in &PRODUCT; are elastic IPs that can be transferred across
- geographically separated zones. As an administrator, you can provision a pool of portable
- IPs at region level and are available for user consumption. The users can acquire portable
- IPs if admin has provisioned portable public IPs at the region level they are part of.
- These IPs can be used for any service within an advanced zone. You can also use portable
- IPs for EIP service in Basic zones. Additionally, a portable IP can be transferred from
- one network to another network.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="ntier-apps">
- <title>N-Tier Applications</title>
- <para>In &PRODUCT; 3.0.6, a functionality was added to allow users to create a multi-tier
- application connected to a single instance of a Virtual Router that supports inter-VLAN
- routing. Such a multi-tier application is called a virtual private cloud (VPC). Users were
- also able to connect their multi-tier applications to a private Gateway or a Site-to-Site
- VPN tunnel and route certain traffic to those gateways. For &PRODUCT; 4.2, additional
- features are implemented to enhance VPC applications.</para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para><xref linkend="kvm-vpc"/></para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><xref linkend="add-loadbalancer-rule-vpc"/></para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><xref linkend="current-lb-vpc"/></para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><xref linkend="across-tiers-lb"/></para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><xref linkend="ns-support"/></para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><xref linkend="configure-acl"/></para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><xref linkend="acl-private-gateway"/></para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><xref linkend="allow-acl"/></para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><xref linkend="acl-deny"/></para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><xref linkend="add-vm-tier-sharednw"/></para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><xref linkend="add-gateway-vpc"/></para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><xref linkend="sourcenat-private-gateway"/></para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><xref linkend="eightvpn"/></para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><xref linkend="static-route"/></para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><xref linkend="blacklist-route"/></para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <section id="kvm-vpc">
- <title>Support for KVM</title>
- <para>VPC is now supported on KVM hypervisors.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="add-loadbalancer-rule-vpc">
- <title>Load Balancing Support for VPC</title>
- <para>In a VPC, you can configure two types of load balancing—external LB and
- internal LB. External LB is nothing but a LB rule created to redirect the traffic
- received at a public IP of the VPC virtual router. The traffic is load balanced within a
- tier based on your configuration. Citrix NetScaler and VPC virtual router are supported
- for external LB. When you use internal LB service, traffic received at a tier is load
- balanced across different VMs within that tier. For example, traffic reached at Web tier
- is redirected to another VM in that tier. External load balancing devices are not
- supported for internal LB. The service is provided by a internal LB VM configured on the
- target tier.</para>
- <section id="current-lb-vpc">
- <title>Load Balancing Within a Tier (External LB)</title>
- <para>A &PRODUCT; user or administrator may create load balancing rules that balance
- traffic received at a public IP to one or more VMs that belong to a network tier that
- provides load balancing service in a VPC. A user creates a rule, specifies an
- algorithm, and assigns the rule to a set of VMs within a tier.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="across-tiers-lb">
- <title>Load Balancing Across Tiers</title>
- <para>&PRODUCT; supports sharing workload across different tiers within your VPC. Assume
- that multiple tiers are set up in your environment, such as Web tier and Application
- tier. Traffic to each tier is balanced on the VPC virtual router on the public side.
- If you want the traffic coming from the Web tier to the Application tier to be
- balanced, use the internal load balancing feature offered by &PRODUCT;.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="ns-support">
- <title>Netscaler Support for VPC</title>
- <para>Citrix NetScaler is supported for external LB. Certified version for this feature
- is NetScaler 10.0 Build 74.4006.e.</para>
- </section>
- </section>
- <section id="configure-acl">
- <title>Enhanced Access Control List</title>
- <para>Network Access Control List (ACL) on the VPC virtual router is enhanced. The network
- ACLs can be created for the tiers only if the NetworkACL service is supported. In
- &PRODUCT; terminology, Network ACL is a group of Network ACL items. Network ACL items
- are nothing but numbered rules that are evaluated in order, starting with the lowest
- numbered rule. These rules determine whether traffic is allowed in or out of any tier
- associated with the network ACL. You need to add the Network ACL items to the Network
- ACL, then associate the Network ACL with a tier. Network ACL is associated with a VPC
- and can be assigned to multiple VPC tiers within a VPC. A Tier is associated with a
- Network ACL at all the times. Each tier can be associated with only one ACL.</para>
- <para>The default Network ACL is used when no ACL is associated. Default behavior is all
- incoming traffic to guest networks is blocked and all outgoing traffic from guest
- networks is allowed. Default network ACL cannot be removed or modified.</para>
- <section id="acl-private-gateway">
- <title>ACL on Private Gateway</title>
- <para>The traffic on the VPC private gateway is controlled by creating both ingress and
- egress network ACL rules. The ACLs contains both allow and deny rules. As per the
- rule, all the ingress traffic to the private gateway interface and all the egress
- traffic out from the private gateway interface are blocked. You can change this
- default behaviour while creating a private gateway.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="allow-acl">
- <title>Allow ACL on All Level 4 Protocols</title>
- <para>In addition to the existing protocol support for ICMP, TCP, UDP, support for All
- Level 4 protocols is added. The protocol numbers from 0 to 255 are supported.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="acl-deny">
- <title>Support for ACL Deny Rules</title>
- <para>In addition to the existing support for ACL Allow rules, support for ACL Deny
- rules has been added in &PRODUCT; 4.2. As part of this, two operations are supported:
- Number and Action. You can configure a rule, allow or deny, by using action. Use
- Number to add a rule number.</para>
- </section>
- </section>
- <section id="add-vm-tier-sharednw">
- <title>Deploying VMs to a VPC Tier and Shared Networks</title>
- <para>&PRODUCT; allows you to deploy VMs on a VPC tier and one or more shared networks.
- With this feature, the VMs deployed in a multi-tier application can receive services
- offered by a service provider over the shared network. One example of such a service is
- monitoring service.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="add-gateway-vpc">
- <title>Adding a Private Gateway to a VPC</title>
- <para>A private gateway can be added by the root admin only. The VPC private network has
- 1:1 relationship with the NIC of the physical network. You can configure multiple
- private gateways to a single VPC. No gateways with duplicated VLAN and IP are allowed in
- the same data center.</para>
- <section id="sourcenat-private-gateway">
- <title>Source NAT on Private Gateway</title>
- <para>You might want to deploy multiple VPCs with the same super CIDR and guest tier
- CIDR. Therefore, multiple guest VMs from different VPCs can have the same IPs to reach
- a enterprise data center through the private gateway. In such cases, a NAT service
- need to be configured on the private gateway. If Source NAT is enabled, the guest VMs
- in VPC reaches the enterprise network via private gateway IP address by using the NAT
- service. </para>
- <para>The Source NAT service on a private gateway can be enabled while adding the
- private gateway. On deletion of a private gateway, source NAT rules specific to the
- private gateway are deleted.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="eightvpn">
- <title>VPN Gateways</title>
- <para>Support up to 8 VPN Gateways is added.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="static-route">
- <title>Creating a Static Route</title>
- <para>&PRODUCT; enables you to specify routing for the VPN connection you create. You
- can enter one or CIDR addresses to indicate which traffic is to be routed back to the
- gateway.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="blacklist-route">
- <title>Blacklisting Routes</title>
- <para>&PRODUCT; enables you to block a list of routes so that they are not assigned to
- any of the VPC private gateways. Specify the list of routes that you want to blacklist
- in the <code>blacklisted.routes</code> global parameter. Note that the parameter
- update affects only new static route creations. If you block an existing static route,
- it remains intact and continue functioning. You cannot add a static route if the route
- is blacklisted for the zone. </para>
- </section>
- </section>
- </section>
- <section id="vlan-assign-isolated-nw">
- <title>Assigning VLANs to Isolated Networks</title>
- <para>&PRODUCT; provides you the ability to control VLAN assignment to Isolated networks.
- You can assign a VLAN ID when a network is created, just the way it's done for Shared
- networks.</para>
- <para>The former behaviour also is supported — VLAN is randomly allocated to a network
- from the VNET range of the physical network when the network turns to Implemented state.
- The VLAN is released back to the VNET pool when the network shuts down as a part of the
- Network Garbage Collection. The VLAN can be re-used either by the same network when it is
- implemented again, or by any other network. On each subsequent implementation of a
- network, a new VLAN can be assigned.</para>
- <note>
- <para>You cannot change a VLAN once it's assigned to the network. The VLAN remains with
- the network for its entire life cycle.</para>
- </note>
- </section>
- <section id="persistent-network">
- <title>Persistent Networks</title>
- <para>&PRODUCT; 4.2 supports Persistent Networks. The network that you can provision without
- having to deploy any VMs on it is called a Persistent Network. A Persistent Network can be
- part of a VPC or a non-VPC environment. With the addition of this feature, you will have
- the ability to create a network in &PRODUCT; in which physical devices can be deployed
- without having to run any VMs. Additionally, you can deploy physical devices on that
- network. Another advantages is that you can create a VPC with a tier that consists only
- physical devices. For example, you might create a VPC for a three-tier application, deploy
- VMs for Web and Application tier, and use physical machines for the Database tier. Another
- use case is that if you are providing services by using physical hardware, you can define
- the network as persistent and therefore even if all its VMs are destroyed the services
- will not be discontinued.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="vnmc-cisco">
- <title>Cisco VNMC Support</title>
- <para>Cisco Virtual Network Management Center (VNMC) provides centralized multi-device and
- policy management for Cisco Network Virtual Services. When Cisco VNMC is integrated with
- ASA 1000v Cloud Firewall and Cisco Nexus 1000v dvSwitch in &PRODUCT; you will be able to: </para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Configure Cisco ASA 1000v Firewalls</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Create and apply security profiles that contain ACL policy sets for both ingress
- and egress traffic, and NAT policy sets</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <para>&PRODUCT; supports Cisco VNMC on Cisco Nexus 1000v dvSwich-enabled VMware
- hypervisors.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="vmware-vswitch">
- <title>VMware vNetwork Distributed vSwitch</title>
- <para>&PRODUCT; supports VMware vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) for virtual network
- configuration in a VMware vSphere environment. Each vCenter server instance can support up
- to 128 VDSs and each VDS can manage up to 500 VMware hosts. &PRODUCT; supports configuring
- virtual networks in a deployment with a mix of Virtual Distributed Switch, Standard
- Virtual Switch and Nexus 1000v Virtual Switch. </para>
- </section>
- <section id="reserved-ip-addresses-non-csvms">
- <title>IP Reservation in Isolated Guest Networks</title>
- <para>In Isolated guest networks in &PRODUCT; 4.2, a part of the guest IP address space can
- be reserved for non-&PRODUCT; VMs or physical servers. To do so, you configure a range of
- Reserved IP addresses by specifying the CIDR when a guest network is in Implemented state.
- The advantage of having this feature is that if your customers wish to have non-&PRODUCT;
- controlled VMs or physical servers on the same network, they can use a part of the IP
- address space that is primarily provided to the guest network. When IP reservation is
- configured, the administrator can add additional VMs or physical servers that are not part
- of &PRODUCT; to the same network and assign them the Reserved IP addresses. &PRODUCT;
- guest VMs cannot acquire IPs from the Reserved IP Range.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="ip-vlan-tenant">
- <title>Dedicated Resources: Public IP Addresses and VLANs Per Account</title>
- <para>&PRODUCT; provides you the ability to reserve a set of public IP addresses and VLANs
- exclusively for an account. During zone creation, you can continue to define a set of
- VLANs and multiple public IP ranges. This feature extends the functionality to enable you
- to dedicate a fixed set of VLANs and guest IP addresses for a tenant.</para>
- <para>This feature provides you the following capabilities:</para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Reserve a VLAN range and public IP address range from an Advanced zone and assign
- it to an account</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Disassociate a VLAN and public IP address range from an account</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <note>
- <para>Ensure that you check whether the required range is available and conforms to
- account limits. The maximum IPs per account limit cannot be superseded.</para>
- </note>
- </section>
- <section id="egress-firewall">
- <title>Enhanced Juniper SRX Support for Egress Firewall Rules</title>
- <para>Egress firewall rules were previously supported on virtual routers, and now they are
- also supported on Juniper SRX external networking devices.</para>
- <para>Egress traffic originates from a private network to a public network, such as the
- Internet. By default, the egress traffic is blocked, so no outgoing traffic is allowed
- from a guest network to the Internet. However, you can control the egress traffic in an
- Advanced zone by creating egress firewall rules. When an egress firewall rule is applied,
- the traffic specific to the rule is allowed and the remaining traffic is blocked. When all
- the firewall rules are removed the default policy, Block, is applied.</para>
- <note>
- <para>Egress firewall rules are not supported on Shared networks. They are supported only
- on Isolated guest networks.</para>
- </note>
- </section>
- <section id="default-egress-policy">
- <title>Configuring the Default Egress Policy</title>
- <para>The default egress policy for Isolated guest network can be configured by using
- Network offering. Use the create network offering option to determine whether the default
- policy should be block or allow all the traffic to the public network from a guest
- network. Use this network offering to create the network. If no policy is specified, by
- default all the traffic is allowed from the guest network that you create by using this
- network offering.</para>
- <para>You have two options: Allow and Deny.</para>
- <para>If you select Allow for a network offering, by default egress traffic is allowed.
- However, when an egress rule is configured for a guest network, rules are applied to block
- the specified traffic and rest are allowed. If no egress rules are configured for the
- network, egress traffic is accepted. If you select Deny for a network offering, by default
- egress traffic for the guest network is blocked. However, when an egress rules is
- configured for a guest network, rules are applied to allow the specified traffic. While
- implementing a guest network, &PRODUCT; adds the firewall egress rule specific to the
- default egress policy for the guest network.</para>
- <para>This feature is supported only on virtual router and Juniper SRX.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="non-contiguous-vlan">
- <title>Non-Contiguous VLAN Ranges</title>
- <para>&PRODUCT; provides you with the flexibility to add non contiguous VLAN ranges to your
- network. The administrator can either update an existing VLAN range or add multiple non
- contiguous VLAN ranges while creating a zone. You can also use the UpdatephysicalNetwork
- API to extend the VLAN range.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="pvlan">
- <title>Isolation in Advanced Zone Using Private VLAN</title>
- <para>Isolation of guest traffic in shared networks can be achieved by using Private VLANs
- (PVLAN). PVLANs provide Layer 2 isolation between ports within the same VLAN. In a
- PVLAN-enabled shared network, a user VM cannot reach other user VM though they can reach
- the DHCP server and gateway, this would in turn allow users to control traffic within a
- network and help them deploy multiple applications without communication between
- application as well as prevent communication with other users’ VMs.</para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>Isolate VMs in a shared networks by using Private VLANs.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Supported on KVM, XenServer, and VMware hypervisors.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>PVLAN-enabled shared network can be a part of multiple networks of a guest VM.
- </para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <para>For further reading:</para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para><ulink
- url="http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/switches/lan/catalyst3750/software/release/12.2_25_see/configuration/guide/swpvlan.html#wp1038379"
- >Understanding Private VLANs</ulink></para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><ulink url="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5517">Cisco Systems' Private VLANs:
- Scalable Security in a Multi-Client Environment</ulink></para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><ulink url="http://kb.vmware.com">Private VLAN (PVLAN) on vNetwork Distributed
- Switch - Concept Overview (1010691)</ulink></para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- </section>
- <section id="multiple-ip-nic">
- <title>Configuring Multiple IP Addresses on a Single NIC</title>
- <para>(Supported on XenServer, KVM, and VMware hypervisors)</para>
- <para>&PRODUCT; now provides you the ability to associate multiple private IP addresses per
- guest VM NIC. This feature is supported on all the network configurations—Basic,
- Advanced, and VPC. Security Groups, Static NAT and Port forwarding services are supported
- on these additional IPs. In addition to the primary IP, you can assign additional IPs to
- the guest VM NIC. Up to 256 IP addresses are allowed per NIC.</para>
- <para>As always, you can specify an IP from the guest subnet; if not specified, an IP is
- automatically picked up from the guest VM subnet. You can view the IPs associated with for
- each guest VM NICs on the UI. You can apply NAT on these additional guest IPs by using
- firewall configuration in the &PRODUCT; UI. You must specify the NIC to which the IP
- should be associated.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="multiple-ip-range">
- <title>Adding Multiple IP Ranges</title>
- <para>(Supported on KVM, xenServer, and VMware hypervisors)</para>
- <para>&PRODUCT; 4.2 provides you with the flexibility to add guest IP ranges from different
- subnets in Basic zones and security groups-enabled Advanced zones. For security
- groups-enabled Advanced zones, it implies multiple subnets can be added to the same VLAN.
- With the addition of this feature, you will be able to add IP address ranges from the same
- subnet or from a different one when IP address are exhausted. This would in turn allows
- you to employ higher number of subnets and thus reduce the address management
- overhead.</para>
- <para>Ensure that you manually configure the gateway of the new subnet before adding the IP
- range. Note that &PRODUCT; supports only one gateway for a subnet; overlapping subnets are
- not currently supported.</para>
- <para>You can also delete IP ranges. This operation fails if an IP from the remove range is
- in use. If the remove range contains the IP address on which the DHCP server is running,
- &PRODUCT; acquires a new IP from the same subnet. If no IP is available in the subnet, the
- remove operation fails.</para>
- <note>
- <para>The feature can only be implemented on IPv4 addresses.</para>
- </note>
- </section>
- <section id="add-remove-network-vm">
- <title>Support for Multiple Networks in VMs</title>
- <para>(Supported on XenServer, VMware and KVM hypervisors)</para>
- <para>&PRODUCT; 4.2 provides you the ability to add and remove multiple networks to a VM.
- You can remove a network from a VM and add a new network. You can also change the default
- network of a VM. With this functionality, hybrid or traditional server loads can be
- accommodated with ease. </para>
- <para>For adding or removing a NIC to work on VMware, ensure that vm-tools are running on
- guest VMs.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="gslb">
- <title>Global Server Load Balancing</title>
- <para>&PRODUCT; 4.2 supports Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) functionalities to provide
- business continuity by load balancing traffic to an instance on active zones only in case
- of zone failures . &PRODUCT; achieve this by extending its functionality of integrating
- with NetScaler Application Delivery Controller (ADC), which also provides various GSLB
- capabilities, such as disaster recovery and load balancing. The DNS redirection technique
- is used to achieve GSLB in &PRODUCT;. In order to support this functionality, region level
- services and service provider are introduced. A new service 'GSLB' is introduced as a
- region level service. The GSLB service provider is introduced that will provider the GSLB
- service. Currently, NetScaler is the supported GSLB provider in &PRODUCT;. GSLB
- functionality works in an Active-Active data center environment. </para>
- </section>
- <section id="lb-on-shared-vlan">
- <title>Enhanced Load Balancing Services Using External Provider on Shared VLANs</title>
- <para>Network services like Firewall, Load Balancing, and NAT are now supported in shared
- networks created in an advanced zone. In effect, the following network services shall be
- made available to a VM in a shared network: Source NAT, Static NAT, Port Forwarding,
- Firewall and Load balancing. Subset of these service can be chosen while creating a
- network offering for shared networks. Services available in a shared network is defined by
- the network offering and the service chosen in the network offering. For example, if
- network offering for a shared network has source NAT service enabled, a public IP shall be
- provisioned and source NAT is configured on the firewall device to provide public access
- to the VMs on the shared network. Static NAT, Port Forwarding, Load Balancing, and
- Firewall services shall be available only on the acquired public IPs associated with a
- shared network.</para>
- <para>Additionally, Netscaler and Juniper SRX firewall device can be configured inline or
- side-by-side mode.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="health-check">
- <title>Health Checks for Load Balanced Instances</title>
- <note>
- <para>This feature is supported only on NetScaler version 10.0 and beyond.</para>
- </note>
- <para>(NetScaler load balancer only) A load balancer rule distributes requests among a pool
- of services (a service in this context means an application running on a virtual machine).
- When creating a load balancer rule, you can specify a health check which will ensure that
- the rule forwards requests only to services that are healthy (running and available). When
- a health check is in effect, the load balancer will stop forwarding requests to any
- resources that it has found to be unhealthy. If the resource later becomes available
- again, the periodic health check (periodicity is configurable) will discover it and the
- resource will once again be made available to the load balancer.</para>
- <para>To configure how often the health check is performed by default, use the global
- configuration setting healthcheck.update.interval. This default applies to all the health
- check policies in the cloud. You can override this value for an individual health check
- policy.</para>
- </section>
+ <section id="ex-devices">
+ <title>Supported External Devices</title>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Netscaler VPX and MPX versions 9.3 and 10.e </para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Netscaler SDX version 9.3</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>SRX (Model srx100b) versions 10.3 or higher</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>F5 10.1.0 (Build 3341.1084)</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
</section>
- <section id="host-and-vm-enhancements">
- <title>Host and Virtual Machine Enhancements</title>
- <para>The following new features expand the ways you can use hosts and virtual
- machines.</para>
- <section id="vmware-drs">
- <title>VMware DRS Support</title>
- <para>The VMware vSphere Distributed Resources Scheduler (DRS) is supported.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="windows-8">
- <title>Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 as VM Guest OS</title>
- <para>(Supported on XenServer, VMware, and KVM)</para>
- <para>Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 can now be used as OS types on guest virtual
- machines. The OS would be made available the same as any other, by uploading an ISO or a
- template. The instructions for uploading ISOs and templates are given in the
- Administrator's Guide. </para>
- <note>
- <para><emphasis role="bold">Limitation:</emphasis> When used with VMware hosts, this
- feature works only for the following versions: vSphere ESXi 5.1 and ESXi 5.0 Patch
- 4.</para>
- </note>
- <para/>
- </section>
- <section id="change-account">
- <title>Change Account Ownership of Virtual Machines</title>
- <para>A root administrator can now change the ownership of any virtual machine from one
- account to any other account. A domain or sub-domain administrator can do the same for VMs
- within the domain from one account to any other account in the domain.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="dedicated-resources">
- <title>Private Pod, Cluster, or Host</title>
- <para>Dedicating pod, cluster or host to a specific domain/account means that the
- domain/account will have sole access to the dedicated pod, cluster or hosts such that
- scalability, security and manageability within a domain/account can be improved. The
- resources which belong to that tenant will be placed into that dedicated pod, cluster or
- host.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="resize-volume">
- <title>Resizing Volumes</title>
- <para>&PRODUCT; provides the ability to resize data disks; &PRODUCT; controls volume size by
- using disk offerings. This provides &PRODUCT; administrators with the flexibility to
- choose how much space they want to make available to the end users. Volumes within the
- disk offerings with the same storage tag can be resized. For example, if you only want to
- offer 10, 50, and 100 GB offerings, the allowed resize should stay within those limits.
- That implies if you define a 10 GB, a 50 GB and a 100 GB disk offerings, a user can
- upgrade from 10 GB to 50 GB, or 50 GB to 100 GB. If you create a custom-sized disk
- offering, then you have the option to resize the volume by specifying a new, larger size.
- Additionally, using the resizeVolume API, a data volume can be moved from a static disk
- offering to a custom disk offering with the size specified. This functionality allows
- those who might be billing by certain volume sizes or disk offerings to stick to that
- model, while providing the flexibility to migrate to whatever custom size necessary. This
- feature is supported on KVM, XenServer, and VMware hosts. However, shrinking volumes is
- not supported on VMware hosts</para>
- </section>
- <section id="volume-snapshot-enhancement">
- <title>VMware Volume Snapshot Improved Performance</title>
- <para>When you take a snapshot of a data volume on VMware, &PRODUCT; will now use a more
- efficient storage technique to improve performance.</para>
- <para>Previously, every snapshot was immediately exported from vCenter to a mounted NFS
- share and packaged into an OVA file format. This operation consumed time and resources.
- Starting from 4.2, the original file formats (e.g., VMDK) provided by vCenter will be
- retained. An OVA file will only be created as needed, on demand.</para>
- <para>The new process applies only to newly created snapshots after upgrade to &PRODUCT;
- 4.2. Snapshots that have already been taken and stored in OVA format will continue to
- exist in that format, and will continue to work as expected.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="storage-migration">
- <title>Storage Migration: XenMotion and vMotion</title>
- <para>(Supported on XenServer and VMware)</para>
- <para>Storage migration allows VMs to be moved from one host to another, where the VMs are
- not located on storage shared between the two hosts. It provides the option to live
- migrate a VM’s disks along with the VM itself. It is now possible to migrate a VM from one
- XenServer resource pool / VMware cluster to another, or to migrate a VM whose disks are on
- local storage, or even to migrate a VM’s disks from one storage repository to another, all
- while the VM is running.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="vmware-configure-linked-clones">
- <title>Configuring Usage of Linked Clones on VMware</title>
- <para>(For ESX hypervisor in conjunction with vCenter)</para>
- <para>In &PRODUCT; 4.2, the creation of VMs as full clones is allowed. In previous versions,
- only linked clones were possible.</para>
- <para>For a full description of clone types, refer to VMware documentation. In summary: A
- full clone is a copy of an existing virtual machine which, once created, does not depend
- in any way on the original virtual machine. A linked clone is also a copy of an existing
- virtual machine, but it has ongoing dependency on the original. A linked clone shares the
- virtual disk of the original VM, and retains access to all files that were present at the
- time the clone was created.</para>
- <para>A new global configuration setting has been added, vmware.create.full.clone. When the
- administrator sets this to true, end users can create guest VMs only as full clones. The
- default value is true for new installations. For customers upgrading from a previous
- version of &PRODUCT;, the default value of vmware.create.full.clone is false.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="host-deployment-rules">
- <title>VM Deployment Rules</title>
- <para>Rules can be set up to ensure that particular VMs are not placed on the same physical
- host. These "anti-affinity rules" can increase the reliability of applications by ensuring
- that the failure of a single host can not take down the entire group of VMs supporting a
- given application. See Affinity Groups in the &PRODUCT; 4.2 Administration Guide.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="cpu-ram-dynamic-scaling">
- <title>CPU and Memory Scaling for Running VMs</title>
- <para>(Supported on VMware and XenServer)</para>
- <para>You can now change the CPU and RAM values for a running virtual machine. In previous
- versions of &PRODUCT;, this could only be done on a stopped VM.</para>
- <para>It is not always possible to accurately predict the CPU and RAM requirements when you
- first deploy a VM. You might need to increase or decrease these resources at any time
- during the life of a VM. With the new ability to dynamically modify CPU and RAM levels,
- you can change these resources for a running VM without incurring any downtime.</para>
- <para>Dynamic CPU and RAM scaling can be used in the following cases:</para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para>New VMs that are created after the installation of &PRODUCT; 4.2. If you are
- upgrading from a previous version of &PRODUCT;, your existing VMs created with
- previous versions will not have the dynamic scaling capability.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>User VMs on hosts running VMware and XenServer.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>System VMs on VMware.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>VM Tools or XenServer Tools must be installed on the virtual machine.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>The new requested CPU and RAM values must be within the constraints allowed by the
- hypervisor and the VM operating system.</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <para>To configure this feature, use the following new global configuration
- variables:</para>
+ <section id="browser">
+ <title>Supported Browsers</title>
+ <para>The &PRODUCT; Web-based UI should be compatible with any modern browser, but it's
+ possible that some browsers will not render portions of the UI reliably, depending on their
+ support of Web standards. For best results, one of the following browsers
+ recommended:</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Internet Explorer versions 8 and 9</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Firefox version 10 and beyond</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Google Chrome versions 17 and 20.0.1132.47m</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Safari 5</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </section>
+ </chapter>
+ <chapter id="version-4.2">
+ <title>About This New Release</title>
+ <section id="whats-new-in-4.2.1">
+ <title>What's New in 4.2.1</title>
+ <para>&PRODUCT; 4.2.1 includes the following new features.</para>
+ <section id="xen64-bit-temp">
+ <title>Optional XenServer 64-Bit Template Support</title>
+ <para>&PRODUCT; now provides XenServer 64-bit templates for System VMs. With this support,
+ you will be able to upgrade virtual routers in a zone. The following parameters have been
+ introduced for the same purpose:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <para>enable.dynamic.scale.vm: Set to True to enable the feature. By default, the
- feature is turned off.</para>
+ <para>XenServer: <parameter>router.template.xen</parameter></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>scale.retry: How many times to attempt the scaling operation. Default = 2.</para>
+ <para>KVM: <parameter>router.template.kvm</parameter></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
- <section id="cpu-ram-overcommit">
- <title>CPU and Memory Over-Provisioning</title>
- <para>(Supported for XenServer, KVM, and VMware)</para>
- <para>In &PRODUCT; 4.2, CPU and memory (RAM) over-provisioning factors can be set for each
- cluster to change the number of VMs that can run on each host in the cluster. This helps
- optimize the use of resources. By increasing the over-provisioning ratio, more resource
- capacity will be used. If the ratio is set to 1, no over-provisioning is done.</para>
- <para>In previous releases, &PRODUCT; did not perform memory over-provisioning. It performed
- CPU over-provisioning based on a ratio configured by the administrator in the global
- configuration setting cpu.overprovisioning.factor. Starting in 4.2, the administrator can
- specify a memory over-provisioning ratio, and can specify both CPU and memory
- over-provisioning ratios on a per-cluster basis, rather than only on a global
- basis.</para>
- <para>In any given cloud, the optimum number of VMs for each host is affected by such things
- as the hypervisor, storage, and hardware configuration. These may be different for each
- cluster in the same cloud. A single global over-provisioning setting could not provide the
- best utilization for all the different clusters in the cloud. It had to be set for the
- lowest common denominator. The new per-cluster setting provides a finer granularity for
- better utilization of resources, no matter where the &PRODUCT; placement algorithm decides
- to place a VM.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="baremetal">
- <title>Kickstart Installation for Bare Metal Provisioning</title>
- <para>&PRODUCT; 4.2 supports the kick start installation method for RPM-based Linux
- operating systems on baremetal hosts in basic zones. Users can provision a baremetal host
- managed by &PRODUCT; as long as they have the kick start file and corresponding OS
- installation ISO ready.</para>
- <para>Tested on CentOS 5.5, CentOS 6.2, CentOS 6.3, Ubuntu 12.04.</para>
- <para>For more information, see the Baremetal Installation Guide.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="baremetal-ucs">
- <title>Enhanced Bare Metal Support on Cisco UCS</title>
- <para>You can now more easily provision new Cisco UCS server blades into &PRODUCT; for use
- as bare metal hosts. The goal is to enable easy expansion of the cloud by leveraging the
- programmability of the UCS converged infrastructure and &PRODUCT;’s knowledge of the cloud
- architecture and ability to orchestrate. With this new feature, &PRODUCT; can
- automatically understand the UCS environment, server profiles, etc. to make it easy to
- deploy a bare metal OS on a Cisco UCS.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="update-vm-image">
- <title>Changing a VM's Base Image</title>
- <para>Every VM is created from a base image, which is a template or ISO which has been
- created and stored in &PRODUCT;. Both cloud administrators and end users can create and
- modify templates, ISOs, and VMs.</para>
- <para>In &PRODUCT; 4.2, there is a new way to modify an existing VM. You can change an
- existing VM from one base image to another. For example, suppose there is a template based
- on a particular operating system, and the OS vendor releases a software patch. The
- administrator or user naturally wants to apply the patch and then make sure existing VMs
- start using it. Whether a software update is involved or not, it's also possible to simply
- switch a VM from its current template to any other desired template.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="reset-vm-reboot">
- <title>Reset VM on Reboot</title>
- <para>In &PRODUCT; 4.2, you can specify that you want to discard the root disk and create a
- new one whenever a given VM is rebooted. This is useful for secure environments that need
- a fresh start on every boot and for desktops that should not retain state. The IP address
- of the VM will not change due to this operation.</para>
- </section>
<section id="vm-snapshots">
- <title>Virtual Machine Snapshots for VMware</title>
- <para>(VMware hosts only) In addition to the existing &PRODUCT; ability to snapshot
- individual VM volumes, you can now take a VM snapshot to preserve all the VM's data
- volumes as well as (optionally) its CPU/memory state. This is useful for quick restore of
- a VM. For example, you can snapshot a VM, then make changes such as software upgrades. If
- anything goes wrong, simply restore the VM to its previous state using the previously
- saved VM snapshot. </para>
- <para>The snapshot is created using the VMware native snapshot facility. The VM snapshot
- includes not only the data volumes, but optionally also whether the VM is running or
- turned off (CPU state) and the memory contents. The snapshot is stored in &PRODUCT;'s
+ <title>XenServer VM Snapshots</title>
+ <para>VM Snapshots are now supported on both VMware and XenServer hosts. Previously, they
+ were suported only on VMware.</para>
+ <para>In addition to the existing &PRODUCT; ability to snapshot individual VM volumes, you
+ can now take a VM snapshot to preserve all the VM's data volumes as well as (optionally)
+ its CPU/memory state. This is useful for quick restore of a VM. For example, you can
+ snapshot a VM, then make changes such as software upgrades. If anything goes wrong, simply
+ restore the VM to its previous state using the previously saved VM snapshot. The VM
+ snapshot includes not only the data volumes, but optionally also whether the VM is running
+ or turned off (CPU state) and the memory contents. The snapshot is stored in &PRODUCT;'s
primary storage.</para>
<para>VM snapshots can have a parent/child relationship. Each successive snapshot of the
same VM is the child of the snapshot that came before it. Each time you take an additional
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parent/child snapshots, which amount to a "redo" record leading from the current state of
the VM back to the original.</para>
</section>
- <section id="vm-userdata">
- <title>Increased Userdata Size When Deploying a VM</title>
- <para>You can now specify up to 32KB of userdata when deploying a virtual machine through
- the &PRODUCT; UI or the deployVirtualMachine API call. </para>
- </section>
- <section id="vmware-cluster-limit">
- <title>Set VMware Cluster Size Limit Depending on VMware Version</title>
- <para>The maximum number of hosts in a vSphere cluster is determined by the VMware
- hypervisor software. For VMware versions 4.2, 4.1, 5.0, and 5.1, the limit is 32
- hosts.</para>
- <para>For &PRODUCT; 4.2, the global configuration setting vmware.percluster.host.max has
- been removed. The maximum number of hosts in a VMware cluster is now determined by the
- underlying hypervisor software.</para>
- <note>
- <para>Best Practice: It is advisable for VMware clusters in &PRODUCT; to be smaller than
- the VMware hypervisor's maximum size. A cluster size of up to 8 hosts has been found
- optimal for most real-world situations.</para>
- </note>
- </section>
- <section id="limit-accounts-domains-rn">
- <title>Limiting Resource Usage</title>
- <para>Previously in &PRODUCT;, resource usage limit was imposed based on the resource count,
- that is, restrict a user or domain on the basis of the number of VMs, volumes, or
- snapshots used. In &PRODUCT; 4.2, a new set of resource types has been added to the
- existing pool of resources (VMs, Volumes, and Snapshots) to support the customization
- model—need-basis usage, such as large VM or small VM. The new resource types are now
- broadly classified as CPU, RAM, Primary storage, and Secondary storage. &PRODUCT; 4.2
- allows the root administrator to impose resource usage limit by the following resource
- types for Domain, Project and Accounts. </para>
+ <section id="ucs-enhancements">
+ <title>Cisco UCS Enhancements</title>
+ <para>Several modifications have been made to improve the user experience when working with
+ Cisco UCS blades and the UCS Manager.</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <para>CPUs</para>
+ <para>The internal procedure for associating a profile to a blade has been modified.
+ When a user wants to associate a profile to a blade in &PRODUCT; 4.2.1, the user
+ chooses a profile template. &PRODUCT; instantiates a profile from that template. In
+ the previous version, &PRODUCT; would instead create a clone of a profile chosen by
+ the user.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Memory (RAM)</para>
+ <para>As a consequence of this change, the user now views a list of profile templates
+ rather than a list of profiles when associating a blade. </para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Primary Storage (Volumes)</para>
+ <para>A new mechanism is provided for making &PRODUCT; aware of any changes that are
+ made manually on the Cisco UCS Manager. For example, at any time, &PRODUCT; users
+ might directly associate or dissociate blades on the UCS Manager, and &PRODUCT; would
+ not be aware of these changes. In order to synchronize the state of &PRODUCT; with UCS
+ Manager, the user can click a new Refresh Blades button in the &PRODUCT; UI. This
+ button is located in the Blades tab, above the list of associated blades.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Secondary Storage (Snapshots, Templates, ISOs)</para>
+ <para>To support the UCS enhancements, several changes have been made to the &PRODUCT;
+ API. See <xref linkend="api-changes"/>.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</section>
- <section id="vm-disk-statistics">
- <title>Disk I/O statistics for VMs</title>
- <para>(Supported on KVM)</para>
- <para>The disk I/O statistics for virtual machines, including read/write (bytes and I/O requests)
- are collected and save in the database from &PRODUCT; 4.2. The data are also managed by
- &PRODUCT; Usage Server. You can get the statistics through listUsageRecords API call. </para>
- <para>This functionality is supported from libvirt 0.9.4. </para>
- </section>
- <section id="vm-disk-throttling">
- <title>Disk I/O throttling for VMs</title>
- <para>(Supported on KVM)</para>
- <para>In &PRODUCT; 4.2, you can limit the read/write rate (bytes and I/O requests per second)
- at user's virtual machines. This is useful to deduce the mutual influence between the
- virtual machines running on the same storage device.</para>
- <para>This functionality is supported from libvirt 0.9.8 and QEMU 1.1.0.</para>
- </section>
- </section>
- <section id="ops">
- <title>Monitoring, Maintenance, and Operations Enhancements</title>
- <section id="delete-alerts">
- <title>Deleting and Archiving Events and Alerts</title>
- <para>In addition to viewing a list of events and alerts in the UI, the administrator can
- now delete and archive them. In order to support deleting and archiving alerts, the
- following global parameters have been added:</para>
- <itemizedlist>
- <listitem>
- <para><emphasis role="bold">alert.purge.delay</emphasis>: The alerts older than
- specified number of days are purged. Set the value to 0 to never purge alerts
- automatically.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para><emphasis role="bold">alert.purge.interval</emphasis>: The interval in seconds to
- wait before running the alert purge thread. The default is 86400 seconds (one
- day).</para>
- </listitem>
- </itemizedlist>
- <note>
- <para>Archived alerts or events cannot be viewed in the UI, or by using the API. They are
- maintained in the database for auditing or compliance purposes.</para>
- </note>
- </section>
- <section id="global-parameters">
- <title>Increased Granularity for Configuration Parameters</title>
- <para>Some configuration parameters which were previously available only at the global level
- of the cloud can now be set for smaller components of the cloud, such as at the zone
- level. To set these parameters, look for the new Settings tab in the UI. You will find it
- on the detail page for an account, cluster, zone, or primary storage.</para>
- <para>The account level parameters are: <code>remote.access.vpn.client.iprange</code>,
- <code>allow.public.user.templates</code>, <code>use.system.public.ips</code>, and
- <code>use.system.guest.vlans</code></para>
- <para>The cluster level parameters are
- <code>cluster.storage.allocated.capacity.notificationthreshold</code>,
- <code>cluster.storage.capacity.notificationthreshold</code>,
- <code>cluster.cpu.allocated.capacity.notificationthreshold</code>,
- <code>cluster.memory.allocated.capacity.notificationthreshold</code>, <code>
- cluster.cpu.allocated.capacity.disablethreshold</code>,
- <code>cluster.memory.allocated.capacity.disablethreshold</code>,
- <code>cpu.overprovisioning.factor</code>, <code>mem.overprovisioning.factor</code>,
- <code>vmware.reserve.cpu</code>, and <code>vmware.reserve.mem</code>.</para>
- <para>The zone level parameters are
- <code>pool.storage.allocated.capacity.disablethreshold</code>,
- <code>pool.storage.capacity.disablethreshold</code>,
- <code>storage.overprovisioning.factor</code>, <code>network.throttling.rate</code>,
- <code>guest.domain.suffix</code>, <code>router.template.xen</code>,
- <code>router.template.kvm</code>, <code>router.template.vmware</code>,
- <code>router.template.hyperv</code>, <code>router.template.lx</code>c,
- <code>enable.dynamic.scale.vm</code>, <code>use.external.dns</code>, and
- <code>blacklisted.routes</code>.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="api-request-throttling">
- <title>API Request Throttling</title>
- <para>In &PRODUCT; 4.2, you can limit the rate at which API requests can be placed for each
- account. This is useful to avoid malicious attacks on the Management Server, prevent
- performance degradation, and provide fairness to all accounts.</para>
- <para>If the number of API calls exceeds the threshold, an error message is returned for any
- additional API calls. The caller will have to retry these API calls at another
- time.</para>
- <para>To control the API request throttling, use the following new global configuration
- settings:</para>
+ <section id="s3-api-upload">
+ <title>Choose Single-part or Multi-part Upload to Object Storage</title>
+ <para>&PRODUCT; 4.2.1 supports both multi-part and single-part upload for registering
+ templates, uploading volumes, and backing up snapshots to object storage in secondary
+ storage. Previously, only multi-part upload was supported for registering templates and
+ uploading volumes, and only single-part upload was supported for backing up
+ snapshots.</para>
+ <para>The type of upload &PRODUCT; will use depends on the value of the new global
+ configuration setting s3.singleupload.max.size. You can use this setting to set up three
+ different upload scenarios:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <para>api.throttling.enabled - Enable/Disable API throttling. By default, this setting
- is false, so API throttling is not enabled.</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>api.throttling.interval (in seconds) - Time interval during which the number of
- API requests is to be counted. When the interval has passed, the API count is reset to
- 0.</para>
+ <para>Choose the upload technique dynamically depending on the size of the object to be
+ uploaded. Smaller objects will be uploaded as a single unit, and larger objects will
+ be split into multiple parts for upload. To set the threshold for switching to
+ multi-part upload, set s3.singleupload.max.size to the desired object size in GB
+ (default: 5GB).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>api.throttling.max - Maximum number of APIs that can be placed within the
- api.throttling.interval period.</para>
+ <para>To use multi-part upload for all objects regardless of size, set
+ s3.singleupload.max.size to 0.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>api.throttling.cachesize - Cache size for storing API counters. Use a value higher
- than the total number of accounts managed by the cloud. One cache entry is needed for
- each account, to store the running API total for that account within the current time
- window.</para>
+ <para>To use single-part upload for all objects, set s3.singleupload.max.size to
+ -1.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- </section>
- <section id="external-alert-managers">
- <title>Sending Alerts to External SNMP and Syslog Managers</title>
- <para>In addition to showing administrator alerts on the Dashboard in the &PRODUCT; UI and
- sending them in email, &PRODUCT; now can also send the same alerts to external SNMP or
- Syslog management software. This is useful if you prefer to use an SNMP or Syslog manager
- to monitor your cloud.</para>
- <para>The supported protocol is SNMP version 2.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="default-pwd-engine">
- <title>Changing the Default Password Encryption</title>
- <para>Passwords are encoded when creating or updating users. The new default preferred
- encoder, replacing MD5, is SHA256. It is more secure than MD5 hashing. If you take no
- action to customize password encryption and authentication, SHA256 Salt will be
- used.</para>
- <para>If you prefer a different authentication mechanism, &PRODUCT; 4.2 provides a way for
- you to determine the default encoding and authentication mechanism for admin and user
- logins. Two new configurable lists have been introduced: userPasswordEncoders and
- userAuthenticators. userPasswordEncoders allow you to configure the order of preference
- for encoding passwords, and userAuthenticator allows you to configure the order in which
- authentication schemes are invoked to validate user passwords.</para>
- <para>The plain text user authenticator has been modified not to convert supplied passwords
- to their md5 sums before checking them with the database entries. It performs a simple
- string comparison between retrieved and supplied login passwords instead of comparing the
- retrieved md5 hash of the stored password against the supplied md5 hash of the password,
- because clients no longer hash the password.</para>
- </section>
- <section id="cloud-bugtool">
- <title>Log Collection Utility cloud-bugtool</title>
- <para>&PRODUCT; provides a command-line utility called cloud-bugtool to make it easier to
- collect the logs and other diagnostic data required for troubleshooting. This is
- especially useful when interacting with Citrix Technical Support.</para>
- <para>You can use cloud-bugtool to collect the following:</para>
+ <para>Multi-part upload is useful to make the transfer of templates and volumes to remote
+ storage more resilient to network failure and to optimize throughput. Single-part upload
+ may be preferable when using storage that is local to the data center.</para>
+ </section>
+ <section id="centos64">
+ <title>Management Server Support on CentOS 6.4</title>
+ <para>&PRODUCT; Management Server is now certified on CentOS 6.4.</para>
+ </section>
+ <section id="devide-id-xen">
+ <title>Device ID Changes for XenServer</title>
+ <para>In XenServer 6.1 version and above, a new parameter, <code>device_id: 0002</code>, is
+ introduced for Windows VM with PV drivers. Due to this change, Windows VMs deployed with
+ PV drivers on XenServer 6.0.2 or earlier hosts are not able to successfully boot after
+ stopping and starting once the hosts have been upgraded to XenServer version 6.1 or 6.2.
+ In order to address this issue, a new Global Parameter, <code>xen.pvdriver.version</code>,
+ is introduced to reflect the default PV driver version that is used when registering
+ templates as regular users. Default value for this Global parameter on fresh install will
+ be set to <code>xenserver61</code>, which implies that the new deployments will have only
+ XenServer 6.1 or XenServer 6.2 hosts. Default value for this Global parameter on upgrades
+ would be set to <code>xenserver61</code> only if all the hosts in the deployment are
+ XenServer 6.1 or above. Even if a host is below XenServer 6.1 version, this value will be
+ set to <code>xenserver56</code>. The administrators are provided with following abilities
+ with respect to setting or altering PV driver version:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
- <para>Basic system and environment information and network configuration including IP
- addresses, routing, and name resolver settings </para>
+ <para>Ability to set the PV driver version 6.1+ option for a template when registering
+ templates. </para>
+ <para>Regular and Domain admin users will not have the ability to set the PV driver
+ version when registering templates. In this case the PV driver version is defaulted to
+ the Global parameter, <code>xen.pvdriver.version</code>. The PV driver version of the
+ template is stored in <code>vm_template_details</code>.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Information about running processes</para>
+ <para>Ability to update the PV driver version 6.1 + option for an existing
+ template.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Management Server logs</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>System logs in /var/log/</para>
- </listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>Dump of the cloud database</para>
+ <para>Ability to update the PV driver version 6.1 + option for a VM when it is in
+ stopped state.</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
- <warning>
- <para>cloud-bugtool collects information which might be considered sensitive and
- confidential. Using the <code>--nodb</code> option to avoid the cloud database can
- reduce this concern, though it is not guaranteed to exclude all sensitive data.</para>
- </warning>
- <para/>
</section>
- <section id="rbd-primary-storage">
- <title>Snaphotting, Backups, Cloning and System VMs for RBD Primary Storage</title>
- <note>
- <para>These new RBD features require at least librbd 0.61.7 (Cuttlefish) and libvirt
- 0.9.14 on the KVM hypervisors.</para>
- </note>
- <para>This release of &PRODUCT; will leverage the features of RBD format 2. This allows
- snapshotting and backing up those snapshots.</para>
- <para>Backups of snapshots to Secondary Storage are full copies of the RBD snapshot, they
- are not RBD diffs. This because when restoring a backup of a snapshot it is not mandatory
- that this backup is deployed on RBD again, it could also be a NFS Primary Storage.</para>
- <para>Another key feature of RBD format 2 is cloning. With this release templates will be
- copied to Primary Storage once and by using the cloning mechanism new disks will be cloned
- from this parent template. This saves space and decreases deployment time for instances
- dramatically.</para>
- <para>Before this release, a NFS Primary Storage was still required for running the System
- VMs from. The reason was a so called 'patch disk' that was generated by the hypervisor
- which contained metadata for the System VM. The scripts generating this disk didn't
- support RBD and thus System VMs had to be deployed from NFS. With 4.2 instead of the patch
- disk a VirtIO serial console is used to pass meta information to System VMs. This enabled
- the deployment of System VMs on RBD Primary Storage.</para>
+ <section id="no-sourceNAT-lb">
+ <title>Acquiring IP Without Enabling SourceNAT Service</title>
+ <para>The SourceNAT dependency for acquiring IPs has been removed. Therefore, an IP can now
+ be acquired and LB rules can be created on it without enabling the SourceNAT service in a
+ network. In both shared and isolated networks, DNS, DHCP and LB services provided by
+ &PRODUCT; is a valid service combination. In this case gateway is defined externally on
+ the configured LB device and &PRODUCT; does not provide any NAT service.</para>
</section>
</section>
- <section id="issues-fixed-4.2">
- <title>Issues Fixed in 4.2.0</title>
+ <section id="issues-fixed-4.2.1">
+ <title>Issues Fixed in 4.2.1</title>
<para>Apache CloudStack uses <ulink url="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLOUDSTACK"
- >Jira</ulink> to track its issues. All new features and bugs for 4.2.0 have been tracked
+ >Jira</ulink> to track its issues. All new features and bugs for 4.2.1 have been tracked
in Jira, and have a standard naming convention of "CLOUDSTACK-NNNN" where "NNNN" is the
issue number.</para>
<para>For the list of issues fixed, see <ulink
- url="https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12324870">Issues Fixed in
+ url="https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12325707">Issues Fixed in
4.2</ulink>.</para>
</section>
- <section id="known-issues-4.2">
- <title>Known Issues in 4.2.0</title>
- <para>This section includes a summary of known issues that were fixed in 4.2.0. For the list
- of known issues, see <ulink url="https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12324873"
+ <section id="known-issues-4.2.1">
+ <title>Known Issues in 4.2.1</title>
+ <para>This section includes a summary of known issues that were fixed in 4.2.1. For the list
+ of known issues, see <ulink url=" https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?filter=12325708"
>Known Issues</ulink>.</para>
</section>
</chapter>
<chapter id="upgrade-instructions">
- <title>Upgrade Instructions for 4.2</title>
+ <title>Upgrade Instructions for 4.2.1</title>
<para>This section contains upgrade instructions from prior versions of CloudStack to Apache
- CloudStack 4.2.0. We include instructions on upgrading to Apache CloudStack from pre-Apache
+ CloudStack 4.2.1. We include instructions on upgrading to Apache CloudStack from pre-Apache
versions of Citrix &PRODUCT; (last version prior to Apache is 3.0.2) and from the releases
made while CloudStack was in the Apache Incubator.</para>
<para>If you run into any issues during upgrades, please feel free to ask questions on
users@cloudstack.apache.org or dev@cloudstack.apache.org.</para>
<note>
<title>Overprovisioning cautions</title>
- <para>If the &PRODUCT; instance you are upgrading is leveraging overprovisioning you need to read and understand
- <xref linkend="cpu-ram-overcommit"/>. The overprovisioning factors are now cluster specific and should you be
- overprovisioned, your new system VMs may not start up.
- </para>
- </note>
- <section id="upgrade-from-4.0-to-4.1">
- <title>Upgrade from 4.1.x to 4.2.0</title>
- <para>This section will guide you from &PRODUCT; 4.1.x versions to &PRODUCT; 4.2.0.</para>
+ <para>If the &PRODUCT; instance you are upgrading is leveraging overprovisioning you need to
+ read and understand <xref linkend="cpu-ram-overcommit"/>. The overprovisioning factors are
+ now cluster specific and should you be overprovisioned, your new system VMs may not start
+ up. </para>
+ </note>
+ <section id="upgrade-from-4.0-to-4.2.1">
+ <title>Upgrade from 4.1.x to 4.2.1</title>
+ <para>This section will guide you from &PRODUCT; 4.1.x versions to &PRODUCT; 4.2.1.</para>
<para>Any steps that are hypervisor-specific will be called out with a note.</para>
<para>We recommend reading through this section once or twice before beginning your upgrade
procedure, and working through it on a test system before working on a production
@@ -1096,7 +339,7 @@ under the License.
Ubuntu).</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>Create RPM or Debian packages (as appropriate) and a repository from the 4.2.0
+ <para>Create RPM or Debian packages (as appropriate) and a repository from the 4.2.1
source, or check the Apache CloudStack downloads page at <ulink
url="http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html"
>http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html</ulink> for package repositories supplied
@@ -1122,14 +365,13 @@ under the License.
<programlisting><prompt>#</prompt> mysqldump -u root -p cloud > cloudstack-backup.sql</programlisting>
</listitem>
<listitem>
- <para>(KVM Only) If primary storage of type local storage is in use, the path for this
- storage needs to be verified to ensure it passes new validation. Check local storage by
- querying the cloud.storage_pool table:
- </para>
- <programlisting><prompt>#</prompt>mysql -u cloud -p -e "select id,name,path from cloud.storage_pool where pool_type='Filesystem'"</programlisting>
- <para>If local storage paths are found to have a trailing forward slash, remove it:
+ <para>(KVM Only) If primary storage of type local storage is in use, the path for this
+ storage needs to be verified to ensure it passes new validation. Check local storage by
+ querying the cloud.storage_pool table: </para>
+ <programlisting><prompt>#</prompt>mysql -u cloud -p -e "select id,name,path from cloud.storage_pool where pool_type='Filesystem'"</programlisting>
+ <para>If local storage paths are found to have a trailing forward slash, remove it:
<programlisting><prompt>#</prompt>mysql -u cloud -p -e 'update cloud.storage_pool set path="/var/lib/libvirt/images" where path="/var/lib/libvirt/images/"';</programlisting>
- </para>
+ </para>
</listitem>
<listitem id="upgrade-deb-packages">
<para>If you are using Ubuntu, follow this procedure to upgrade your packages. If not,
@@ -1153,7 +395,7 @@ under the License.
<para>We'll change it to point to the new package repository:</para>
<programlisting language="Bash">deb http://cloudstack.apt-get.eu/ubuntu precise 4.2</programlisting>
<para>If you're using your own package repository, change this line to read as
- appropriate for your 4.2.0 repository.</para>
+ appropriate for your 4.2.1 repository.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Now update your apt package list:</para>
@@ -1246,7 +488,7 @@ service cloudstack-agent start
as hosts and only on the KVM hosts.</para>
<orderedlist numeration="loweralpha">
<listitem>
- <para>Configure the CloudStack yum repository as detailed above.</para>
+ <para>Configure the CloudStack yum repository as detailed above.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>Stop the running agent.</para>
@@ -1291,7 +533,7 @@ gpgcheck=0
<para>If you are using the community provided package repository, change the base url
to http://cloudstack.apt-get.eu/rhel/4.2/</para>
<para>If you're using your own package repository, change this line to read as
- appropriate for your 4.2.0 repository.</para>
+ appropriate for your 4.2.1 repository.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem id="rpm-master">
<para>Now that you have the repository configured, it's time to install the
@@ -1328,11 +570,12 @@ service cloudstack-agent start
</listitem>
<listitem id="restart-system-vms">
<para>Once you've upgraded the packages on your management servers, you'll need to restart
- the system VMs. Ensure that the admin port is set to 8096 by using the "integration.api.port" global parameter.
-This port is used by the cloud-sysvmadm script at the end of the upgrade procedure. For
-information about how to set this parameter, see "Setting Global Configuration Parameters" in
-the Installation Guide. Changing this parameter will require management server restart. Also make sure port 8096 is open in your local host firewall to do
- this. </para>
+ the system VMs. Ensure that the admin port is set to 8096 by using the
+ "integration.api.port" global parameter. This port is used by the cloud-sysvmadm script
+ at the end of the upgrade procedure. For information about how to set this parameter,
+ see "Setting Global Configuration Parameters" in the Installation Guide. Changing this
+ parameter will require management server restart. Also make sure port 8096 is open in
+ your local host firewall to do this. </para>
<para>There is a script that will do this for you, all you need to do is run the script
and supply the IP address for your MySQL instance and your MySQL credentials:</para>
<programlisting language="Bash"><prompt>#</prompt> nohup cloudstack-sysvmadm -d <replaceable>IP address</replaceable> -u clou
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release notes for 4.2.1 CLOUDSTACK-5003
Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cloudstack-docs/repo
Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cloudstack-docs/commit/aaffdb8e
Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cloudstack-docs/tree/aaffdb8e
Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cloudstack-docs/diff/aaffdb8e
Branch: refs/heads/4.2
Commit: aaffdb8e1514b04fd75089b6c2136a773e8b4eaf
Parents: 23fc9d8
Author: Radhika PC <ra...@citrix.com>
Authored: Thu Nov 14 16:32:45 2013 +0530
Committer: Radhika PC <ra...@citrix.com>
Committed: Thu Nov 14 16:32:45 2013 +0530
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