Translations:ReleaseNotes/Liberty/60/en
Key New Features
- A generic image caching solution, so popular VM images can be cached and copied-on-write to a new volume. Read docs for more info
- Non-disruptive backups Read docs for more info.
- Ability to clone consistency groups of volumes Read docs for more info.
- List capabilities of a volume backend (fetch extra-specs).
- Nested quotas.
- Default LVM backends to be thin provisioned if available.
- Corrected cinder service-list to show as Down when a driver fails to initialize.
- Improved volume migration management:
- Able to see if previous migration attempt was successful
- Admins able to monitor migrations via cinder list
- New volume status of 'maintenance' to prevent operations being attempted while migration is occurring
- Improve backend volume name/id consistency after migration completes