Xen Orchestra 3.4 Hi everyone! Ready for a new release? Two great features: * A sign in page (no more public access, you should have at least a registered user). We've got "read" permission for people who want the same result than before. * An "end-to-end" event system (see
Users roles in Xen Orchestra This post is an introduction of our users roles implementation in Xen Orchestra. Our main goal is to provide you a way to optimize your workflow with VMs, and you'll see how we found the solution. The need A LOT of companies ask us for user roles for
Bounties for Xen Orchestra As requested by "ngc" on our forum [/forum/72-feature-requests-bounties], we are now able to register contributions for unlock features in Xen Orchestra. The main demand is on user roles [/forum/74-users-and-roles-in-xo] and also getting metrics [/forum/75-statistics-in-xo] in xo-web. The first good news in our official first contribution
Xen Orchestra 3.3.1 We're back with a minor release, mainly for fixing bugs + update console view, which is nicer : You can read the change log here [https://github.com/vatesfr/xo-web/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md]. Please update your current XOA 3.3 with this command: service xo update && service
Xen Orchestra 3.3 Here it comes the fourth release of Xen Orchestra 3.x. The main new feature is snapshots: you can now make snapshots, delete, rename or revert them! List of visible changes: * full snapshot management (create, delete, rename, revert) * host actions, like restart toolstack, reboot or shutdown * log management: you can
Testing XenServer 6.2.5 beta Thanks to this tweet [https://twitter.com/lsantiagos/status/441738002914476032], I decided to test latest build of XenServer. Let's see what we have here. First, I don't have any physical host left to install it on bare hardware. Let's play virtception! The famous scene
XOA: more than 1000 downloads! Just one month after our first XOA 3.0 release, we've got more than 1000 unique downloads (1100 right now). And we don't take into account manual installs. So, on behalf of XO team, thank you! We hope to continue this way, and with your help
February: a big step in Xen Orchestra project February was really an important month for the project, with our 3.x release. Also numbers sometimes talk themselves: * more than 9500 visitors during the month (+40% compared to January, check the bump in the graph!) * more than 800 unique downloads for XOA (all versions, without counting manual installations) * a
Xen Orchestra 3.2 We're back with a new version of Xen Orchestra! The big news is about console: it now works in Chrome browsers \o/ Our patch sent to noVNC team was merged yesterday [https://github.com/kanaka/noVNC/pull/338]. List of changes: * consoles in Chrome browser (do not forget
Xen Orchestra 3.1 Hi everyone! Just one week after our first 3.0 release [/blog/new-major-release-for-xen-orchestra/], we are proud to present you the 3.1 version! We were efficient, with 11 bugs/enhancements fixed. Thanks people for actively reporting issues (morsik and hoerup reported more than 70% of our issues for this release!
New major release for Xen Orchestra Hi everyone! After 6 months of hard work, more than 500 new commits (!), one LinuxCon, one FOSDEM, around 32000 visitors here, we are proud to present a new version of Xen Orchestra (release 3, codename "Clarinet"). Let's see what we have here! New features and cycle
New release incoming We are just back from FOSDEM14 [https://fosdem.org/2014/] :) Great event with a lot of stuff, and very interesting discussions for people getting on Xen booth seeing our demo. Thank everybody for your support! (and Xen team for sharing the booth!). We can now focus on the next release
XO Team at FOSDEM 2014 Want to see us during next FOSDEM [https://fosdem.org/2014/]? We'll be on Xen booth (Sat. 15:00 -> 17:00 and Sun. 10:00 -> 12:00), running a live demo of the next release! The Xen booth will be in K building, level1
XO situation report Happy new year! 2014 will be a great year for XO, because we plan to release the first stable version with professional support. Before that, our next objective is the last alpha version (alpha 3), and probably a beta after. Today, let's make a report of our work.
Introducing new interface As you may know, we are working on a new Alpha Release of Xen Orchestra (Alpha 3, codename "Clarinet"). This new version will introduce a totally new design, because we learned a lot of things about XAPI and what kind of information is really important to display. Thus,
Debian PVHVM vs PV This time, it's not a news about Xen Orchestra [https://xen-orchestra.com/#!/?pk_campaign=blog_pvhvm], but a benchmark of virtualization modes: PVHVM vs PV. When I saw the numbers from Rackspace [http://developer.rackspace.com/blog/welcome-to-performance-cloud-servers-have-some-benchmarks.html] , well... I choose to do my own tests here,
6000 visitors in October! Interest Getting 6000 visitors is not the only good news: our progression is very strong since June: And our participation to 3 events allows us to get a better visibility, that's why I want to thanks Lars Kurth [http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/User:Lars.kurth] for his
Sketching the next interface After our previous release [/blog/new-alpha-release/], we choose to bring a better interface for XO. That's why we are currently thinking and sketching for the next step. We'll explain quickly our way to do so. Explore The first thing you need to build a good interface,
New alpha release Here is our new release of XO, with nice features embedded. Let's take a closer look. Robustness As planned [/blog/new-features-incoming/], we now manage pool master change in live: if you decide to change your pool master while XO is connected to it, we detect it and re-create
New design for the website A short post to tell you that our website [/] get a new design. If you have any comment or suggestion, feel free to comment.
New features incoming This week, we'll release interesting features in Xen Orchestra. Pool master redirect After a report from "msciciel" in our forum [/forum/index.php/8-pool-master-change], we decided to implement a redirect mechanism: if you add a server and it's not the pool master, we automatically
Video from Xen User Summit/Linux Con If you want to get an overview of Xen Orchestra project, this news is a nice opportunity to do so. Here is our session recorded in New Orleans. Slides are alsoavailable [http://xenproject.org/component/allvideoshare/video/latest/xen-orchestra-xapi-and-xenserver-from-the-web-xpus13-lambert.html] . Get the full story of Xen User Summit on linux.
Users and servers persistence A short news about the software itself: we have successfully implemented users and servers persistence in a database, using NoSQL (Redis [http://redis.io/]). Now, you can reboot/restart, you'll never lost your users nor your configured servers. Admin view now have two "pages", Users and
Meet us at Xen User Summit (LinuxCon) Good news everyone! We'll be present at LinuxCon in New Orleans (September 16 - 18, 2013), precisely in the Xen User Summit. If you want to see our talk about Xen Orchestra, please check the schedule [http://linuxconcloudopenna2013.sched.org/event/edb5791b29af0fe974dd97d29eb3f517] , it will be Wednesday, September 18,
New XO on tracks! As you may know, we choose to rebuild XO from scratch with Javascript (node.js), for numerous reasons [/blog/progress-report-and-planning/]. And we did it! For now, this version is usable without any configuration in the code or config files. Working stuff This version use node.js for xo-server and is
