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Posted to commits@cloudstack.apache.org by ra...@apache.org on 2014/01/23 07:47:48 UTC
git commit: overview of 4.3 features in progress
Updated Branches:
refs/heads/4.3 7f2eb6e62 -> 4173468f7
overview of 4.3 features in progress
Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cloudstack-docs/repo
Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cloudstack-docs/commit/4173468f
Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cloudstack-docs/tree/4173468f
Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cloudstack-docs/diff/4173468f
Branch: refs/heads/4.3
Commit: 4173468f7fbe38468472083dd52fd69f0a82f0ed
Parents: 7f2eb6e
Author: radhikap <ra...@citrix.com>
Authored: Thu Jan 23 12:05:35 2014 +0530
Committer: radhikap <ra...@citrix.com>
Committed: Thu Jan 23 12:11:38 2014 +0530
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http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cloudstack-docs/blob/4173468f/release-notes/en-US/Release_Notes.xml
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diff --git a/release-notes/en-US/Release_Notes.xml b/release-notes/en-US/Release_Notes.xml
index 91eefed..a51657f 100644
--- a/release-notes/en-US/Release_Notes.xml
+++ b/release-notes/en-US/Release_Notes.xml
@@ -23,8 +23,8 @@ under the License.
<xi:include href="Preface.xml" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
<chapter id="welcome-4.3">
<title>Welcome to &PRODUCT; 4.3</title>
- <para>Welcome to the 4.3 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>Welcome to the 4.3 release of &PRODUCT;. This version is the first feature release of
+ &PRODUCT; in the 4.3.<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
@@ -437,6 +437,15 @@ under the License.
each hypervisor type. This feature is not supported in versions prior to XenServer
6.2.</para>
</section>
+ <section id="ha-db">
+ <title>Database High Availability</title>
+ <para>To help ensure high availability of the databases that store the internal data for
+ &PRODUCT;, you can set up database replication. This covers both the main &PRODUCT;
+ database and the Usage database. Replication is achieved using the MySQL connector
+ parameters and two-way replication. Tested with MySQL 5.1 and 5.5. Database replication in
+ &PRODUCT; is provided using the MySQL replication capabilities. The steps to set up
+ replication can be found in the MySQL documentation.</para>
+ </section>
<section id="new-ui">
<title>Enhanced &PRODUCT; UI</title>
<para>A complete UI makeover is implemented to enhance the usability and user experience in
@@ -445,6 +454,24 @@ under the License.
introduced to match with the Apache branding. </para>
<para>The current UI flow remains the same.</para>
</section>
+ <section id="alert-publish">
+ <title>Publishing Alert Using the Web ROOT Admin API</title>
+ <para>In previous releases of &PRODUCT; code alerts are generated for &PRODUCT; services
+ (Usage service)only if they run on the same host as the Management Server. A new API has
+ been introduced in 4.3 so that alerts are generated and published though the following
+ services run on a separate host:</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Any new services added to &PRODUCT;.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Usage service when run on a separate storage host.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Console Proxy and Secondary Storage VM services.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </section>
</section>
<section id="issues-fixed-4.3">
<title>Issues Fixed in 4.3</title>
@@ -3453,6 +3480,29 @@ service cloudstack-agent start
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
</section>
+ <section id="alert-api">
+ <title>Reporting CPU Sockets</title>
+ <informaltable>
+ <tgroup cols="2" align="left" colsep="1" rowsep="1">
+ <colspec colwidth="1.0*" colname="1" colnum="1"/>
+ <colspec colwidth="9.87*" colname="2" colnum="2"/>
+ <thead>
+ <row>
+ <entry><para>API</para></entry>
+ <entry><para>Description</para></entry>
+ </row>
+ </thead>
+ <tbody>
+ <row>
+ <entry><para>generateAlert</para></entry>
+ <entry><para>A new API has been added to generate and publish alerts for usage
+ services. The usage services can be installed on a different host or the same host
+ where the Management Server is running.</para></entry>
+ </row>
+ </tbody>
+ </tgroup>
+ </informaltable>
+ </section>
<section id="dynamic-compute">
<title>Dynamic Compute Offering</title>
<informaltable>