Release Xen Cloud Platform 1.0

What happened so long talked about in the xen-api mailing list - version 1.0 of the Xen Cloud Platform was released.



Key changes:

• Upgrading the kernel version (zen is always a very specific topic)
• Blktap2 support
• Bexar support (more precisely, on the contrary, Bexar supports XCP)
• RDAC mulipath support at XAPI level
• Local network storage caching
• Managed Auto Backups of Machines
• Boot hosts from network storage (required HBA required)

From myself I will add (that I noticed new when picking with RC-versions):

• Thin provisioning on LVM (including iscsiolvm)
• Support for pure virtual networks between hosts (traffic routing through GRE encapsulation)
• xapi has finally become installed as RPM packages, and not as a blob-code trash into / opt.
• Substantial processing of documentation

Xen's blog entry: blog.xen.org/index.php/2011/03/03/xcp-1-0-released

Link to download page: www.xen.org/download/xcp/index_1.0.0.html