From 7b3693cbe75b58e25d3fb605267fb9ac914c776f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michael Abdou <43175221+mabdou25@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2023 13:43:24 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update whats_new.rst Proof-reading changes (mabdou) --- .../intro_release_notes/release_notes/whats_new.rst | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/source/intro_release_notes/release_notes/whats_new.rst b/source/intro_release_notes/release_notes/whats_new.rst index f238c278d..9817643ee 100644 --- a/source/intro_release_notes/release_notes/whats_new.rst +++ b/source/intro_release_notes/release_notes/whats_new.rst @@ -6,18 +6,18 @@ What's New in |version| .. Attention: Substitutions doesn't work for emphasized text -**OpenNebula 6.8 ‘Rosette’** is the fifth stable release of the OpenNebula 6 series. This version of OpenNebula focuses on features to improve the end user experience as well as to optimize the use of the HW resources in KVM based infrastructures. +**OpenNebula 6.8 ‘Rosette’** is the fifth stable release of the OpenNebula 6 series. This version of OpenNebula focuses on features to improve the end user experience as well as to optimize the use of the HW resources in KVM-based infrastructures. -The fist highlight is the addition of the Virtual Datacenter (VDC) and User tab to FireEdge Sunstone. As you may know, we are working hard on replacing the eyes of OpenNebula, Ruby Sunstone, which has served well for over a decade. FireEdge Sunstone is starting to exhibit a high percentage of the needed functionality, as well as starting to expand the functionality given by Ruby Sunstone. An example is the new User tab, which also includes Accounting and Showback information that can be exported and presented in several different charts. Also Quotas subtab has undergo a face lifting, with a more comprehensive way to convey information. +The first highlight is the addition of the Virtual Datacenter (VDC) and User tab to FireEdge Sunstone. As you may know, we are working hard on replacing the eyes of OpenNebula, Ruby Sunstone, which has served well for over a decade. FireEdge Sunstone is starting to exhibit a high percentage of the needed functionality, as well as starting to expand the functionality given by Ruby Sunstone. An example is the new User tab, which also includes Accounting and Showback information that can be exported and presented in several different charts. Also, the Quotas subtab has undergone a face lifting, with a more comprehensive way to convey information. .. image:: /images/fireedge-rns-68.png :align: center -The second highlight is related with Backup functionality, with the introduction of Backup Jobs. Backup Jobs enables the definition of backup operations that involve multiple VMs, simplifying the management of your cloud infrastructure. It lets you establish a unified backup policy for multiple VMs, encompassing schedules, backup retention, and filesystem freeze mode, as well as maintain control over the execution of backup operations, ensuring they do not disrupt ongoing workloads. Moreover it allows for the monitoring the progress of backup operations, essential to estimate backup times accurately. +The second highlight is related to Backup functionality, with the introduction of Backup Jobs. Backup Jobs enable the definition of backup operations that involve multiple VMs, simplifying the management of your cloud infrastructure. It lets you establish a unified backup policy for multiple VMs, encompassing schedules, backup retention, and filesystem freeze mode, as well as maintain control over the execution of backup operations, ensuring they do not disrupt ongoing workloads. Moreover, it allows for the monitoring of the progress of backup operations, essential to estimate backup times accurately. -And third and last, but not least, there's been a myriad of improvements in the KVM drivers. To name a few: now is possible to fine tune the selection of CPU flags, to specify io_uring driver for disks, define a custom video device for VMs and utomatically define default set timers to improve Windows performance. This options have been implemented in the driver, and for the ones where it makes sense, are already exposes through Sunstone. Both flavours :) +And third and last, but not least, there ahve been a myriad of improvements in the KVM drivers. To name a few: now it's possible to fine-tune the selection of CPU flags, to specify io_uring driver for disks, define a custom video device for VMs and automatically define default set timers to improve Windows performance. These options have been implemented in the driver, and for the ones where it makes sense, are already exposed through Sunstone. Both flavours :) -As a bonus, the scheduler can be now configured to reach out to an external module (with a well defined REST API) to get recommendations on initial VM placement. The motivation behind this new feature is to able to integrate OpenNebula with different Machine Learning modules that can optimize different metrics to optimize a given criteria, or set of criterias: reduce energy consumption, reduce latency with respect to end user, reduce overall infrastructure cost, etc. Check below to learn what other goodies, and bugfixes, made it into OpenNebula. +As a bonus, the scheduler can be now configured to reach out to an external module (with a well-defined REST API) to get recommendations on initial VM placement. The motivation behind this new feature is to able to integrate OpenNebula with different Machine Learning modules that can optimize different metrics to optimize a given criteria, or set of criteria: reduce energy consumption, reduce latency with respect to end user, reduce overall infrastructure cost, etc. Check below to learn what other goodies, and bug fixes, made it into OpenNebula. As usual, OpenNebula 6.8 is named after a Nebula. The `Rosette Nebula `__ (also known as Caldwell 49) is an H II region located near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Monoceros region of the Milky Way Galaxy. The open cluster `NGC 2244 `__ (Caldwell 50) is closely associated with the nebulosity, the stars of the cluster having been formed from the nebula's matter. @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Storage & Backups ================================================================================ - `Shared datastore allows qcow2 backing link in CLONE action to be configurable `__. - `Allow the resize of qcow2 and Ceph disks with snapshots `__. -- Backup Jobs enable you to define backup operations that involve multiple VMs, simplifying the management of your cloud infrastructure. With Backup Jobs, you can setup unified backup policies for multiple VMs, easily track it progress, and control the resources used. +- Backup Jobs enable you to define backup operations that involve multiple VMs, simplifying the management of your cloud infrastructure. With Backup Jobs, you can setup unified backup policies for multiple VMs, easily track their progress, and control the resources used. - The ``VIRTIO_ISCSI_QUEUES`` attribute now offers support for the ``auto`` keyword, allowing you to automatically configure the number of queues to match the virtual CPU count of the Virtual Machine. For more information check the :ref:`VM Template Reference ` and the :ref:`KVM driver guide `. - Added a new attribute, ``VIRTIO_BLK_QUEUES``, to activate the multi-queue functionality in the virtio-blk driver. This attribute can be configured for all ``DISK`` devices within a VM either through the ``FEATURES`` attribute or globally in the KVM driver configuration file. For more information check the :ref:`VM Template Reference ` and the :ref:`KVM driver guide `.