4.9. Red Hat Virtualization 4.3 Batch Update 8 (ovirt-4.3.11)

BZ#1830762

Previously, importing an OVA as a Template using the ovirt-engine-sdk’s uploading script failed with a null pointer exception because some storage-related values were not set correctly. The current release fixes this issue. It adds code that checks the storage values and, if needed, sets them using values from the image object. Now, importing the OVA this way succeeds.

BZ#1842377

Previously, while creating virtual machine snapshots, if the VDSM’s command to freeze a virtual machines' file systems exceeded the snapshot command’s 3-minute timeout period, creating snapshots failed, causing virtual machines and disks to lock.

BZ#1845747

Previously, after upgrading to 4.3 and updating the cluster, the virtual machine (VM) tab in the Administration Portal was extremely slow until you restarted the VMs. This issue happened because updating the page recalculated the list of changed fields for every VM on the VM list page (read from the snapshot). The current release fixes this issue. It eliminates the previous performance impact by calculating the changed fields only once when the next run snapshot is created.

BZ#1848877

In previous versions, engine-backup --mode=verify passed even if pg_restore emitted errors. The current release fixes this issue. The engine-backup --mode=verify command correctly fails if pg_restore emits errors.

BZ#1849558

Previously, when creating large numbers of virtual machines (~2300 VMs), the associated Data Centers became unresponsive, and the hosts did not have Storage Pool Managers (SPM). With this release, large scale deployment of virtual machines succeeds without errors.

BZ#1850920

Previously, creating a live snapshot with memory while LiveSnapshotPerformFreezeInEngine was set to True resulted in a virtual machine file system that is frozen when previewing or committing the snapshot with memory restore. In this release, the virtual machine runs successfully after creating a preview snapshot from a memory snapshot.

BZ#1850963

Previously, installing guest agents for Windows guests from rhv-guest-tools-iso-4.3-12.el7ev using rhev-apt.exe failed because it could not verify a filename that exceeded Windows' 63-character limit. The current release fixes this issue. It renames the file with a shorter name, so the installation process works.

BZ#1851854

Previously, the slot parameter was parsed as a string, causing disk rollback to fail during the creation of a virtual machine from a template when using an Ansible script. Note that there was no such failure when using the Administration Portal to create a virtual machine from a template. With this update, the slot parameter is parsed as an int, so disk rollback and virtual machine creation succeed.

BZ#1852314

Previously, exporting a virtual machine or template to an OVA file incorrectly sets its format in the OVF metadata file to "RAW". This issue causes problems using the OVA file. The current release fixes this issue. Exporting to OVA sets the format in the OVF metadata file to "COW", which represents the disk’s actual format, qcow2.

BZ#1852315

Host capabilities retrieval was failing for certain non-NUMA CPU topologies. That has been fixed and host capabilities should be correctly reported now for those topologies.

BZ#1855213

After updating the packages on a conversion host, it stopped displaying conversion progress. The current release fixes this issue. The conversion host reports its progress performing conversions, including on the latest RHEL 7-based hosts.

BZ#1855283

Previously, during RHHI-V deployment of three hosts using ovirt-ansible-hosted-engine-setup, the host for the Self-Hosted Engine was added to the default cluster, but the remaining two hosts were not added. In this release, deployment with ovirt-ansible-hosted-engine-setup adds all hosts to the cluster.

BZ#1698870

The Red Hat knowledge base article, "Monitoring RHV with a standalone Elasticsearch instance," has been updated, and is available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/4921101

BZ#1842522

With this enhancement, while deploying RHEL 7-based hosts, you can configure SPICE encryption so that: - Only TLSv1.2 and newer protocols are enabled - Available ciphers are limited as described in BZ1563271

BZ#1765993

When using the REST API to restore a virtual machine snapshot, the request returns before the snapshot commit has finished. Workaround: Confirm that the commit operation is complete before attempting to restart the virtual machine.

BZ#1745324

The rhv-guest-tools-iso package is deprecated and will be replaced in Red Hat Virtualization 4.4 by virtio-win-guest-tools iso image. For information, see How can I install RHV Windows guest tools in RHEV 4.4?.

BZ#1862793

Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) 4.3 with Metrics Store installations that are upgraded to RHV 4.4 are not supported. Upgrading an existing RHV 4.3 Metrics Store to RHV 4.4 may continue to work, but has not been tested and is not supported. Administrators are encouraged to use the new Grafana dashboards with Data Warehouse. Administrators can also send metrics and logs to a standalone Elasticsearch instance. For more information, see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5161761