oVirt 3.4 is now available

The oVirt project has announced general availability of oVirt 3.4, a community-driven open virtual data center management platform. This latest community release includes several new features, including hosted engine, improved storage and scheduling, and a preview of hot-plug CPU and PPC64 support features.

Developed by a global community, oVirt offers advanced virtualization capabilities, including high availability, live migration, live storage migration, the ability to schedule and control the deployment of virtual machines, and more. As the upstream development project for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, oVirt’s integrated virtualization enables cost savings for enterprises without the need to re-develop applications to conform to cloud platforms' APIs. oVirt also shares services with Red Hat’s cloud solutions including RDO, Red Hat's community OpenStack distribution, to improve key building blocks for private and public cloud deployments and allow upstream developments to make their way into Red Hat’s enterprise-hardened cloud and virtualization solutions.

Itamar Heim, Director of Software Engineering, Red Hat, said, "oVirt 3.4 will provide admins with more flexibility than ever to better manage and synchronize and schedule their virtualization and cloud workloads. Managing virtual machines is now easier with many new scheduling and load balancing options and dynamic changes such as hot-plug CPU. Deployment is also more flexible with oVirt Engine able to run as a VM on the same hosts it manages, network configurations across multiple hosts and the capability to mix different types of storage in the same data center."

oVirt 3.4 provides cross-architecture capabilities not found in most competing virtualization platforms, including a preview of PPC64 support.

oVirt 3.4 takes virtual data center management to new levels, with access to more developers, using open technologies. With easier-to-install features, more availability on different architectures and platforms, and better access to a variety of storage options, this newest release is a significant milestone for flexible, open-source virtual data center management.