10. Release Notes

10.1. Release 1.0.0

zVMCloudConnector 1.0.0 release includes many basic features that enables z/VM Cloud management through zVMCloudConnector APIs.

Supported features

  • Host(hypervisor) management

    get host information and get host disk pool information.

  • Guests(virtual machines) management

    • Provisoning: create, delete guest definition; capture, deploy guests; create, delete, configure disks; create, delete, couple, uncouple vnics to vswitch; configure vnics and network interfaces.
    • Power actions including start, stop, softstop, reboot, reset, pause, unpause and get power state.
    • Query information: get guest information, guest list, get guest definition information, get console outputs, get nic information.
  • Image management

    Support import, export, delete images; query image information, get image root disk size.

  • Network features

    • vswitch: create, delete vswitch; grant, revoke vswitch access, get vswitch list, query vswitch information, set user vlan id.
    • Hot plug/unplug network interfaces to live guest.
  • Monitoring

    Inspect virtual machine cpu, memory and vnic stats.

  • RESTful API

    zVMCloudConnector provides standard RESTful API, which makes it easier to integrate with other cloud platforms. zVMCloudConnector RESTful API supports to be configured in a HTTP or HTTPS server.

  • Authorization mechanism

    Support token based validation mechanism to make sure all zVMCloudConnector RESTful API requests are authorized.

  • IUCV management channel

    zVMCloudConnector manages virtual machines through z/VM IUCV communication channel, which does not require network connection.

  • Monitoring data cache

    Implement a cache layer in zVMCloudConnector to improve performance of getting monitoring data.

10.2. Release 0.3.2

Beta release since Dec 4, 2017