RHEA-2017:1814 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat Virtualization Manager.

Description

The Red Hat Virtualization Manager is a centralized management platform that allows system administrators to view and manage virtual machines. The Manager provides a comprehensive range of features including search capabilities, resource management, live migrations, and virtual infrastructure provisioning.

The Manager is a JBoss Application Server application that provides several interfaces for accessing and interacting with the virtual environment, including an Administration Portal, a User Portal, and a Representational State Transfer (REST) Application Programming Interface (API).

Changes to the ovirt-engine component:

• Previously, users could use the REST API to add/edit affinity labels for virtual machines and hosts, but they could not view this information in the Administration Portal.

In this release, affinity label information is now available in the Administration Portal. It can be seen in the Add/Edit windows for virtual machines and hosts. The window displays all available affinity labels in the system, and for entities with assigned labels, those labels are selected. (BZ#1465862)

• Previously, when creating a new VLAN-tagged network, the Manager did not allow the same VLAN ID to be duplicated across various entities, such as networks and data centers.

In this release, it is now possible to use the same VLAN ID across multiple entities, as long as they are not used on the same interface on the hardware node. (BZ#1467058)

• Previously, if a host is in maintenance mode and a user calls GET /ovirt-engine/api/hosts/64fc087f-821b-429a-b274-5e8597a88f3d/storage through the REST API, the Manager would try to call getDeviceList on the host, and as a result it would be fenced.

In this release, a validation has been added which first checks to see if the host is in maintenance mode. The Manager will only call getDeviceList if the host is up. (BZ#1468999)

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/2974891

Affected Products

• Red Hat Virtualization 4.1 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1418683 - [RFE][TestOnly]EMC ScaleIO support in RHV
• BZ - 1463698 - [downstream clone - 4.1.4] Running the command logon on the VM via the REST failed
• BZ - 1465862 - [downstream clone - 4.1.4] [RFE] Need UI element to view affinity labels in the VM and host dialog boxes
• BZ - 1467058 - [downstream clone - 4.1.4] [RFE] Do not check VLAN ID for duplicates (allow them on different networks, DCs... ?)
• BZ - 1468968 - [downstream clone - 4.1.4] Default DC & Cluster has fixed UUIDs
• BZ - 1468999 - [downstream clone - 4.1.4] Command via API can cause host in Maintenance mode to be fenced
• BZ - 1470802 - scheduling policy required properties have no defaults

CVEs

• CVE-2017-7510

References

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