Sun xVM Ops Center 2.1 is released
Sun xVM Ops Center 2.1 was released today. The big focus with the 2.1 release was quality - there have been a lot of performance improvements and bug fixes. However, there are also some front-end changes.
For one, there were some enhancements in Gear Monitoring. The big one is power monitoring: Individual pieces of hardware as well as groups now have power utilization charts, which can show current and historical data. There's a configuration tab for each gear that shows which Proxy it belongs to and how it's reachable.
A number of the other changes focused on Proxy Controllers. You can set a Proxy Controller as a default, which routes jobs to it wherever possible. There are also changes to Custom Discovery that give you more control over which Proxy is handling specific gear.
If you're looking for more information, the documentation for Sun xVM Ops Center 2.1 is open, and there's also a demo from Tony Tomarchio that goes through a lot of the features in detail. I'll also answer your questions next week.
It is released but how do we get it? I have an Ops Center 2.0 install and would like to upgrade but I am getting a run around with trying to get a copy to upgrade my environment.
Posted by Ray on May 01, 2009 at 07:33 AM MDT #
Ray,
We're testing an upgrade bundle to go from 2.0 to 2.1 at the moment. It should be available in a few weeks. I'll mention it on the blog when it releases.
Posted by Owen Allen on May 01, 2009 at 08:31 AM MDT #
From what I understand, the upgrade bundle for 2.1 won't be available until the end of May. Since my 2.0 environment was rather trivial, I was able to get the new 2.1 bundle on sunsolve (pub/cores/xvmoc) and do a fresh install. 2.1 is amazingly superior to 2.0, and it resolved many issues I was seeing in 2.0.
Posted by Kurt on May 02, 2009 at 04:52 PM MDT #
Kurt,
We don't have a definite date for the upgrade bundle. Hopefully it'll be available in a couple of weeks, but we'll have to see.
I'm glad to hear that 2.1 is working well for you, though.
Posted by Owen Allen on May 04, 2009 at 10:56 AM MDT #