• oZones DB can be migrated.
• When objects are deleted, their associated ACL rules are cleaned
• The datastore drivers for iSCSI and VMware accept a new attribute DISK_TYPE. Images can now be based on files or block devices.
• DISK_TYPE : File, block or cdrom. Can be specified in the datastore or in the image.
• The BUS attribute for the VM template has been deprecated. The bus type will be inferred from the TARGET and/or the DEV_PREFIX:
  • sdX: SCSI
  • hdX: IDE
  • vdX: virtio
  • etc. Any target format compatible with the hypervisors.
• New VM rescheduling feature
• Revamped Accounting and Monitoring. The 3.4 oneacctd daemon and external database are not needed anymore, Sunstone and the oneacct command query the oned core daemon using the new xml-rpc methods.
• New LVM drivers
• Each cluster can use a different system datastore.

New CLI commands:

• onetemplate clone : Creates a new Template from an existing one
• oneimage clone : Creates a new Image from an existing one
• onegroup quota : Set the quota limits for the group
• oneuser quota : Set the quota limits for the user
• oneuser encode : Encodes user and password to use it with ldap
• onevm reset : Resets the given VM
• onevm attachdisk : Attaches a disk to a running VM
• onevm detachdisk : Detaches a disk from a running VM
• onevm resched : Sets the rescheduling flag for the VM
• onevm unresched : Clears the rescheduling flag for the VM
• onehost flush : Disables the host and reschedules all the running VMs in it.
• onecluster update : Update the template contents.

Changed CLI commands:

• one* update optionally accepts a file path as argument. That file will replace the current template contents, instead of launching the text editor.

• New ACL rule object type: DOCUMENT

• The following xml-rpc methods have been modified:
  • one.vm.action now accepts new actions: resched, unresched, reset

• New xml-rpc methods:
  • one.vm.monitoring
  • one.vm.attach
  • one.vm.detach
  • one.vmpool.accounting
  • one.vmpool.monitoring
  • one.host.monitoring
  • one.hostpool.monitoring
  • one.template.clone
  • one.image.clone
  • one.group.quota
  • one.user.quota
  • one.document.allocate
  • one.document.delete
  • one.document.info
  • one.document.update
  • one.document.chown
  • one.document.chmod
  • one.document.clone
  • one.documentpool.info
  • one.cluster.update

• The XML objects returned by OpenNebula have changed to accommodate the new features. Download the 3.6 XML Schemas (XSD) here.
• New VM state: HOTPLUG : A disk attach or detach operation is in process.
• New Image states: CLONE, DELETE, USED_PERS.
• New Host state: MONITORING_ERROR.

• New clone and stat actions.

• New VMM driver scripts reset, attach_disk, detach_disk .

Changes in oned.conf

• AUTH_MAD requires two separate arguments for authn and authz. See the 3.4 and 3.6 reference guides for oned.conf.
• Two new configuration attributes: HOST_MONITORING_EXPIRATION_TIME and VM_MONITORING_EXPIRATION_TIME

Changes in sched.conf

• New configuration option HYPERVISOR_MEM : Fraction of total MEMORY reserved for the hypervisor.

Cloud servers:

• econe.conf and occi-server.conf the :host parameter is deprecated. User :host instead

Changes in CLI configuration files:

• /etc/one/cli/oneacl.yaml
• /etc/one/cli/onecluster.yaml
• /etc/one/cli/onedatastore.yaml
• /etc/one/cli/onegroup.yaml
• /etc/one/cli/onehost.yaml
• /etc/one/cli/oneimage.yaml
• /etc/one/cli/onetemplate.yaml
• /etc/one/cli/oneuser.yaml
• /etc/one/cli/onevm.yaml
• /etc/one/cli/onevnet.yaml

Removed files:

• /etc/one/auth/quota.conf
• /etc/one/acctd.conf

New files:

• /etc/one/cli/oneacct.yaml