Swift Integration for Secondary Storage 

• Allow Swift to be used as an alternate secondary storage to NFS
• (test plan, func spec)

XenServer 6.0 Support

Projects

• Allow users to collaborate and share resources
• bug: 8620

NetScaler Integration

• Load balance traffic to public IP, port among a set of VMs
• Protocols: HTTP, TCP, UDP
• Persistent Sessions: Source IP, LB-cookie & App-cookie based
• bugs: 11417, 11567

Fine-grained Resource Management

• Set resource limits per zone, pod & cluster
• Notification threshold: alert when resource consumption exceeds this threshold
• Capacity threshold: no future allocations if resource consumption exceeds this threshold

Usability/UI enhancements

Security enhancements

• Encrypt senstive data
• Use randomly generated UUIDs as resource IDs
• Nonce in the API to protect against replay attacks

LDAP/AD Authentication

Clustered LVM support

Support for vSphere 5

Bonita (Apr' 2012)

Bonita is a minor release that includes important bug fixes and small, yet critical, features. Key Bonita feature are listed below.  See details here.

Burbank (Jul' 2012)

Burbank release is in planning stage. It is intended to be a minor release, similar to Bonita, with critical bug fixes and minor enhancements. But, based on huge demand, we are introducing support for inter-VLAN routig and multi-tier applications in this release, even though it's a major feature. See details here.

Multi-tier Applications

• Create multi-tier VMs; Define start, stop sequencing rules of VM-tiers
• Specify Networks connecting the VM-tiers
• Configure firewall and load balancing rules to control traffic between tiers and to Internet
• Governance: quotas & leases to control usage

Site-to-Site VPNs

• Connect data center to cloud infrastucture through a secure tunnel

Campo (Q4' 2012)

Campo is the next major release after Acton. Key features are listed below. See details here.

Regions

• AWS-style Regions to support geographically distributed data-centers
• Region-wide secondary storage
• Management Server in HA mode

IPv6

• Support for guest V6 addressing

Resource Scaling

• Dynamic scaling of CPU, RAM, vNics?
• Volume resize

Dedicated Resource Models

• Private pod, cluster, host: assign pod, cluster, host to a Domain/Account

Enhance NetScaler Integration

• SSL offload

Extend Hypervisor Integration

• VMware: DRS, Storage vMotion, Storage DRS
• XenServer: SGs in L2 (VLAN) networks, Rolling-pool upgrade

Scalability: 50K hosts

Zone-wide primary storage

Integration with External Management Systems

• Generate SNMP Traps & Syslog messages for key events

DNS for guests

Plug-in Architecture

• UI, NW, Storage adapters

2013

• Hyper-v V3 (Win 8)

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