Jsmart
12-24-2008, 03:47 PM
Hello,
We at 3tera are happy to announce the release of AppLogic 2.4.7 (http://doc.3tera.com/AppLogic24/ReleaseNotes-2-4-7.html).
Upon the very successful completion of our extended beta we have made the changes needed to create a full production system ready for even the most robust enterprise applications.
We give a great thanks to all of you that participated in the beta. It was your help that made it possible to fully test and stress the system in real life, real traffic scenarios.
Details
The AppLogic 2.4.7 production release is mainly a bugfix release with some minor enhancements:
• The release contains 71 bug fixes that resolve various defects from previous AppLogic releases (also includes all previous AppLogic hotfixes)
• resource oversubscription for network bandwidth can now be enabled, allowing appliances to use more network bandwidth than their configured amount (disabled by default)
• Several new system catalog appliances:
o L3LB (http://doc.3tera.com/AppLogic24/CatSwitchesL3LB.html): TCP/UDP load balancer (very similar to HALB)
o TOMCAT/TOMCAT64 (http://doc.3tera.com/AppLogic24/CatApplicationServersTomcat.html): tomcat application server (Sun Java machine and Apache Tomcat); 32-bit and 64-bit
o PGSQL64 (http://doc.3tera.com/AppLogic24/CatDatabaseAppliancesPGSQL.html): 64-bit PostgreSQL database
• 2 new AppLogic utilities that make it easier to manage your Windows/Linux appliances (accessible using the util command)
o wincfg (http://doc.3tera.com/AppLogic24/RefWinCfg.html): makes it easy to change the computer name, administrator password and security ID (SID) of your Windows appliances
o hvm2pv (http://doc.3tera.com/AppLogic24/RefHvm2Pv.html): used in conjunction with the iso2class utility to convert a Linux HVM-based appliance to PV-based (paravirtualized)
• The release now supports 50 appliances per server (AppLogic 2.4.5 and prior supported 40 appliances per server)
Note that this release is backwards compatible with all 2.1/2.3/2.4 installations, appliances and applications.
For those of you that did not join the beta program there are even greater changes in store for you!!!!!!!!!!!
Check out what’s new in AppLogic 2.4.7 for AppLogic 2.1.1 users
AppLogic 2.4 contains all of the new features below plus the hotfixes from all previous AppLogic releases.
Overview of the AppLogic 2.4 release
For those who have not used the AppLogic 2.3/2.4 betas, the AppLogic 2.4 production release also brings the following functions initially provided in the AppLogic 2.3/2.4 betas:
• support for 64-bit appliances; you can now mix and match 32-bit and 64-bit appliances in applications
• support for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 32-bit (Standard/Enterprise/DataCenter/Web) as well as for Microsoft's NTFS file system
• support for OpenSolaris 64-bit and Solaris 10 32-bit, as well as for Sun's Zetabyte file system (ZFS) and Unix file system (UFS)
• support for dynamic appliances, including the backup appliance, migration appliance and SLA controller appliance
• new appliances include a 64-bit MySQL server, a replicated MySQL server, 32-bit and 64-bit PostgreSQL servers, a redundant HTTP input gateway with SSL Support, a session-aware HTTP load balancer based on HAProxy, a TCP/UDP load balancer, 32-bit and 64-bit tomcat application servers, a load generator appliance, as well as several new virtual dedicated server appliances
• introduction of the appliance kit (APK) for easier creation of new appliances
• a new iso2class utility that can be used to easily create new appliance distributions from CD/DVD ISO images (Linux, Solaris and Windows)
• resource oversubscription for network bandwidth can now be disabled (an appliance cannot use more network bandwidth than its configured bandwidth); disabled by default
• visual improvements in the editor include text annotations, OS icons, quick documentation links and design error flagging
• improved web user interface; including visual volume browser, application provisioning/migration wizards, appliance boot console access for troubleshooting boot problems, graphical console access for accessing appliance graphical desktops, free-form text notes for applications and appliances, progress indicator and a cancel button for long operations, menu system restructuring within the dashboard and editor
• core system enhancements including improved hardware support, support for global volumes, symbolic links to volumes, impexless import from a remote URL, catalog/class migration, user-level access to application and appliance descriptors (ADL), support for locked appliances and applications, support for bi-directional terminals, support for ext3 file system with snapshots
• automatic check for high availability capacity
Availability
AppLogic 2.4.7 is available immediately to all partners and enterprise customers. Our direct VPDC customers will get a request from support for an upgrade window in the first weeks of the New Year.
We're also working with our service provider partners to make the release available to service customers, including Virtual Private Datacenter (VPDC), Virtual Private Server/Virtual Dedicated Server (VPS/VDS) and other offerings. Contact your favorite sales rep with questions on pricing and deployment; or the community support forums about features and capabilities.
Thanks to all of our users for the unwavering support and the great suggestions! We hope you will enjoy using the new version as much as we enjoyed building it.
To sign up for AppLogic or to receive more information, register here.
We now have a forum specifically for questions and issues related to supporting Windows appliances on AppLogic.
We at 3tera are happy to announce the release of AppLogic 2.4.7 (http://doc.3tera.com/AppLogic24/ReleaseNotes-2-4-7.html).
Upon the very successful completion of our extended beta we have made the changes needed to create a full production system ready for even the most robust enterprise applications.
We give a great thanks to all of you that participated in the beta. It was your help that made it possible to fully test and stress the system in real life, real traffic scenarios.
Details
The AppLogic 2.4.7 production release is mainly a bugfix release with some minor enhancements:
• The release contains 71 bug fixes that resolve various defects from previous AppLogic releases (also includes all previous AppLogic hotfixes)
• resource oversubscription for network bandwidth can now be enabled, allowing appliances to use more network bandwidth than their configured amount (disabled by default)
• Several new system catalog appliances:
o L3LB (http://doc.3tera.com/AppLogic24/CatSwitchesL3LB.html): TCP/UDP load balancer (very similar to HALB)
o TOMCAT/TOMCAT64 (http://doc.3tera.com/AppLogic24/CatApplicationServersTomcat.html): tomcat application server (Sun Java machine and Apache Tomcat); 32-bit and 64-bit
o PGSQL64 (http://doc.3tera.com/AppLogic24/CatDatabaseAppliancesPGSQL.html): 64-bit PostgreSQL database
• 2 new AppLogic utilities that make it easier to manage your Windows/Linux appliances (accessible using the util command)
o wincfg (http://doc.3tera.com/AppLogic24/RefWinCfg.html): makes it easy to change the computer name, administrator password and security ID (SID) of your Windows appliances
o hvm2pv (http://doc.3tera.com/AppLogic24/RefHvm2Pv.html): used in conjunction with the iso2class utility to convert a Linux HVM-based appliance to PV-based (paravirtualized)
• The release now supports 50 appliances per server (AppLogic 2.4.5 and prior supported 40 appliances per server)
Note that this release is backwards compatible with all 2.1/2.3/2.4 installations, appliances and applications.
For those of you that did not join the beta program there are even greater changes in store for you!!!!!!!!!!!
Check out what’s new in AppLogic 2.4.7 for AppLogic 2.1.1 users
AppLogic 2.4 contains all of the new features below plus the hotfixes from all previous AppLogic releases.
Overview of the AppLogic 2.4 release
For those who have not used the AppLogic 2.3/2.4 betas, the AppLogic 2.4 production release also brings the following functions initially provided in the AppLogic 2.3/2.4 betas:
• support for 64-bit appliances; you can now mix and match 32-bit and 64-bit appliances in applications
• support for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 32-bit (Standard/Enterprise/DataCenter/Web) as well as for Microsoft's NTFS file system
• support for OpenSolaris 64-bit and Solaris 10 32-bit, as well as for Sun's Zetabyte file system (ZFS) and Unix file system (UFS)
• support for dynamic appliances, including the backup appliance, migration appliance and SLA controller appliance
• new appliances include a 64-bit MySQL server, a replicated MySQL server, 32-bit and 64-bit PostgreSQL servers, a redundant HTTP input gateway with SSL Support, a session-aware HTTP load balancer based on HAProxy, a TCP/UDP load balancer, 32-bit and 64-bit tomcat application servers, a load generator appliance, as well as several new virtual dedicated server appliances
• introduction of the appliance kit (APK) for easier creation of new appliances
• a new iso2class utility that can be used to easily create new appliance distributions from CD/DVD ISO images (Linux, Solaris and Windows)
• resource oversubscription for network bandwidth can now be disabled (an appliance cannot use more network bandwidth than its configured bandwidth); disabled by default
• visual improvements in the editor include text annotations, OS icons, quick documentation links and design error flagging
• improved web user interface; including visual volume browser, application provisioning/migration wizards, appliance boot console access for troubleshooting boot problems, graphical console access for accessing appliance graphical desktops, free-form text notes for applications and appliances, progress indicator and a cancel button for long operations, menu system restructuring within the dashboard and editor
• core system enhancements including improved hardware support, support for global volumes, symbolic links to volumes, impexless import from a remote URL, catalog/class migration, user-level access to application and appliance descriptors (ADL), support for locked appliances and applications, support for bi-directional terminals, support for ext3 file system with snapshots
• automatic check for high availability capacity
Availability
AppLogic 2.4.7 is available immediately to all partners and enterprise customers. Our direct VPDC customers will get a request from support for an upgrade window in the first weeks of the New Year.
We're also working with our service provider partners to make the release available to service customers, including Virtual Private Datacenter (VPDC), Virtual Private Server/Virtual Dedicated Server (VPS/VDS) and other offerings. Contact your favorite sales rep with questions on pricing and deployment; or the community support forums about features and capabilities.
Thanks to all of our users for the unwavering support and the great suggestions! We hope you will enjoy using the new version as much as we enjoyed building it.
To sign up for AppLogic or to receive more information, register here.
We now have a forum specifically for questions and issues related to supporting Windows appliances on AppLogic.