2 - Xen PVM and KVM have switched the default value for the instance
3 root disk to the first partition on the first drive, instead of the
4 whole drive; this means that the OS installation scripts must be
6 - Man pages have been updated
7 - RAPI has been switched by default to HTTPS, and the exported
8 functions should all work correctly
9 - RAPI v1 has been removed
10 - Many improvements to the KVM hypervisor
11 - Block device errors are now better reported
12 - Many other bugfixes and small improvements
15 - Version 2 is a general rewrite of the code and therefore the
16 differences are too many to list, see the design document for 2.0 in
17 the doc/ subdirectory for more details
18 - In this beta version there is not yet a migration path from 1.2
19 (there will be one in the final 2.0 release)
20 - A few significant changes are:
21 - all commands are executed by a daemon (ganeti-masterd) and the
22 various gnt-* commands are just front-ends to it
23 - all the commands are entered into, and executed from a job queue,
25 - the RAPI daemon supports read-write operations, secured by basic
26 HTTP authentication on top of HTTPS
27 - DRBD version 0.7 support has been removed, DRBD 8 is the only
28 supported version (when migrating from Ganeti 1.2 to 2.0, you need
29 to migrate to DRBD 8 first while still running Ganeti 1.2)
30 - DRBD devices are using statically allocated minor numbers, which
31 will be assigned to existing instances during the migration
33 - there is support for both Xen PVM and Xen HVM instances running on
35 - KVM virtualization is supported too
36 - file-based storage has been implemented, which means that it is
37 possible to run the cluster without LVM and DRBD storage, for
38 example using a shared filesystem exported from shared storage
39 (and still have live migration)
42 - Change the default reboot type in gnt-instance reboot to "hard"
43 - Reuse the old instance mac address by default on instance import,
44 if the instance name is the same.
45 - Handle situations in which the node info rpc returns incomplete results
47 - Add checks for tcp/udp ports collisions in gnt-cluster verify
48 - Improved version of batcher:
50 - instance mac address support
51 - support for HVM clusters/instances
52 - Add an option to show the number of cpu sockets and nodes in gnt-node list
53 - Support OSes that handle more than one version of the OS api
54 (but do not change the current API in any other way)
55 - Fix gnt-node migrate
57 - Fixes various more typos&small issues
58 - Increase disk resync maximum speed to 60MB/s (from 30MB/s)
61 - new --hvm-nic-type and --hvm-disk-type flags to control the type of disk
62 exported to fully virtualized instances.
63 - provide access to the serial console of HVM instances
64 - instance auto_balance flag, set by default. If turned off it will avoid
65 warnings on cluster verify if there is not enough memory to fail over an
66 instance. in the future it will prevent automatically failing it over when
68 - batcher tool for instance creation, see /tools/README.batcher
69 - gnt-instance reinstall --select-os to interactively select a new operating
70 system when reinstalling an instance.
71 - when changing the memory amount on instance modify a check has been added
72 that the instance will be able to start. also warnings are emitted if the
73 instance will not be able to fail over, if auto_balance is true.
75 - sync fields between instance list/modify/add/import
76 - fix a race condition in drbd when the sync speed was set after giving the
80 - note: the allowed size and number of tags per object were reduced
81 - fix a bug in “gnt-cluster verify” with inconsistent volume groups
82 - fixed twisted 8.x compatibility
83 - fixed gnt-instance replace-disks with iallocator
84 - add TCP keepalives on twisted connections to detect restarted nodes
85 - disk increase support, see “gnt-instance grow-disk”
86 - implement bulk node/instance query for RAPI
87 - add tags in node/instance listing (optional)
88 - experimental migration (and live migration) support, read the man
89 page for “gnt-instance migrate”
90 - the ganeti-watcher logs are now timestamped, and the watcher also
91 has some small improvements in handling its state file
94 - Experimental readonly, REST-based remote API implementation; automatically
95 started on master node, TCP port 5080, if enabled by --enable-rapi
96 parameter to configure script.
97 - Instance allocator support. Add and import instance accept a --iallocator
98 parameter, and call that instance allocator to decide which node to use for
99 the instance. The iallocator document describes what's expected from an
101 - gnt-cluster verify N+1 memory redundancy checks: Unless passed the
102 --no-nplus1-mem option gnt-cluster verify now checks that if a node is lost
103 there is still enough memory to fail over the instances that reside on it.
104 - gnt-cluster verify hooks: it is now possible to add post-hooks to
105 gnt-cluster verify, to check for site-specific compliance. All the hooks
106 will run, and their output, if any, will be displayed. Any failing hook
107 will make the verification return an error value.
108 - gnt-cluster verify now checks that its peers are reachable on the primary
109 and secondary interfaces
110 - gnt-node add now supports the --readd option, to readd a node that is still
111 declared as part of the cluster and has failed.
112 - gnt-* list commands now accept a new -o +field way of specifying output
113 fields, that just adds the chosen fields to the default ones.
114 - gnt-backup now has a new "remove" command to delete an existing export from
116 - New per-instance parameters hvm_acpi, hvm_pae and hvm_cdrom_image_path have
117 been added. Using them you can enable/disable acpi and pae support, and
118 specify a path for a cd image to be exported to the instance. These
119 parameters as the name suggest only work on HVM clusters.
120 - When upgrading an HVM cluster to Ganeti 1.2.4, the values for ACPI and PAE
121 support will be set to the previously hardcoded values, but the (previously
122 hardcoded) path to the CDROM ISO image will be unset and if required, needs
123 to be set manually with gnt-instance modify after the upgrade..
124 - The address to which an instance's VNC console is bound is now selectable
125 per-instance, rather than being cluster wide. Of course this only applies
126 to instances controlled via VNC, so currently just applies to HVM clusters.
129 - more tweaks to the disk activation code (especially helpful for DRBD)
130 - change the default ‘gnt-instance list’ output format, now there is
131 one combined status field (see the manpage for the exact values this
133 - some more fixes for the mac export to hooks change
134 - make Ganeti not break with DRBD 8.2.x (which changed the version
135 format in /proc/drbd) (issue 24)
136 - add an upgrade tool from ‘remote_raid1’ disk template to ‘drbd’ disk
137 template, allowing migration from DRBD0.7+MD to DRBD8
140 - fix ‘gnt-instance modify’ breakage introduced in 1.2.1 with the HVM
142 - add command aliases infrastructure and a few aliases
143 - allow listing of VCPUs in the gnt-instance list and improve the man
144 pages and the --help option of gnt-node/gnt-instance list
145 - fix gnt-backup list with down nodes (issue 21)
146 - change the tools location (move from $pkgdatadir to
148 - fix the dist archive and add a check for including svn/git files in
150 - some developer-related changes: improve the burnin and the QA
151 suite, add an upload script for testing during development
154 - experimental HVM support, read the install document, section
155 "Initializing the cluster"
156 - allow for the PVM hypervisor per-instance kernel and initrd paths
157 - add a new command ‘gnt-cluster verify-disks’ which uses a new
158 algorithm to improve the reconnection of the DRBD pairs if the
159 device on the secondary node has gone away
160 - make logical volume code auto-activate LVs at disk activation time
161 - slightly improve the speed of activating disks
162 - allow specification of the MAC address at instance creation time,
163 and changing it later via ‘gnt-instance modify’
164 - fix handling of external commands that generate lots of output on
166 - update documentation with regard to minimum version of DRBD8
170 - Log the ‘xm create’ output to the node daemon log on failure (to
171 help diagnosing the error)
172 - In debug mode, log all external commands output if failed to the
174 - Change parsing of lvm commands to ignore stderr
177 - Another round of updates to the DRBD 8 code to deal with more
178 failures in the replace secondary node operation
179 - Some more logging of failures in disk operations (lvm, drbd)
180 - A few documentation updates
184 - Change configuration file format from Python's Pickle to JSON.
185 Upgrading is possible using the cfgupgrade utility.
186 - Add support for DRBD 8.0 (new disk template `drbd`) which allows for
187 faster replace disks and is more stable (DRBD 8 has many
188 improvements compared to DRBD 0.7)
189 - Added command line tags support (see man pages for gnt-instance,
190 gnt-node, gnt-cluster)
191 - Added instance rename support
192 - Added multi-instance startup/shutdown
193 - Added cluster rename support
194 - Added `gnt-node evacuate` to simplify some node operations
195 - Added instance reboot operation that can speedup reboot as compared
197 - Soften the requirement that hostnames are in FQDN format
198 - The ganeti-watcher now activates drbd pairs after secondary node
200 - Removed dependency on debian's patched fping that uses the
201 non-standard -S option
202 - Now the OS definitions are searched for in multiple, configurable
203 paths (easier for distros to package)
204 - Some changes to the hooks infrastructure (especially the new
205 post-configuration update hook)
206 - Other small bugfixes
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