Enable sending of arbitrary configuration data to VMs | CloudStack Feature First Look
This feature allows the sending of arbitrary additional VM configurations to user VMs on CloudStack and is supported by KVM, XenServer and VMware hypervisors. The administrator enables or disables this feature by the global configuration ‘enable.additional.vm.configuration’ which is disabled by default. To add a second layer of security, the administrator must explicitly set a comma-separated […]
Hosts stuck in PrepareForMaintenance state | CloudStack Feature First Look
The process of setting a host into maintenance in CloudStack requires an administrator to ask for ‘prepare for maintenance’, either via API or through the UI on a host. When CloudStack receives the request to prepare the host for maintenance, the host state is set to ‘PrepareForMaintenance’ and any VM running on the host start […]
VR Health Checks | CloudStack Feature First Look
This feature introduces an easy and integrated way to check the health of virtual routers (VRs) within CloudStack. With the help of these checks, administrators can monitor VRs and take any necessary action when a failure is reported. These health checks can be basic or advanced. Basic health checks include: Connectivity from the management server to […]
Improvements for Template Direct Download | CloudStack Feature First Look
For some time now, CloudStack has supported the direct download of user templates for the KVM hypervisor. This basically allows user to register a template (whilst bypassing secondary storage) and directly download and install it to primary storage where it can be used for deployment: With CloudStack 4.14, this has been improved by adding direct […]
VM Ingestion | CloudStack Feature First Look
Apache CloudStack has proved itself to be a great cloud orchestrator and is probably one of the best open-source platforms available for deployment of new IaaS environments. However, until now there has been little or no support for importing an existing cloud environment with all its resources and entities into CloudStack. This is going to […]
Apache CloudStack 4.1 | CloudStack Feature First Look
CloudStack 4.1 has just been released, bringing with it a raft of new features and improvements. 4.1 presents a milestone for Apache CloudStack as it is the first release since the projects graduation to a top level Apache project. Here’ I take a detailed look at some of the new features Add / Remove Network on […]
