0.9 - November Release

What's new

• Support for cloned disks
• Concurrency improvements
• Tenancy improvements
• Bug fixes

0.9 (2016-11-29)

Full Changelog

Closed issues:

• Fix lockname for source volume in vmdk_ops.cloneVMDK #770
• installing ESXi VIB (release 0.8.1) does not work on Photon Platform ESXi host #764
• Volume lockname need more context #758
• Add a print_message() or similar function in admin CLI #746
• Test improvement (go tests): Supply unique name for volume creation #744
• github page: Move current documentation to a subfolder under root #728
• Matrix testing and multiple testbeds are needed in CI #727
• vmdk_ops.py:removeVMDK() must check that a volume isn't in use before even attempting to remove it. #719
• Trying to remove a volume from a different node multiple times leaves volume in un-usable state #716
• Make KV file read/write ops exclusive to avoid races between ops on the same disk #678
• Get configured size of disk chain when getting disk size. #665
• Documentation: Admin CLI user guide needs updates and a tenancy page #663
• Corrupted metadata file should be handled gracefully and not terminate operations #662
• vmdk-ops service unable to identify the newly mounted datastore on ESX host. But identifies after the service restart. #660
• "docker volume inspect" does not show the current VM name of the VM that created it #652
• Support drone cancel #650
• A test run should start with clean slate #648
• VIB copy during build is copying files as root #637
• Volume create fails with meta-data in use error #626
• vmdkops-admin-cli-spec.md needs update to reflect new Tenants design #622
• Confusing error message from volume.create when datastore is not writable #568
• Support for multiple namespaces (Tenants) #559
• Limit the maximum size for a volume. #557
• Leverage role based access of VC to manage volume creation. #502
• Support a volume create -o"clone-from=" option. #462
• Prepare github pages #16
• Capture the hostd log as part of CI run. #769
• vmdk_ops does not report attached volumes correctly: inspect volume and vmdk_ops list volumes results are different and getting error "vm doesn't belong to any tenant" #738
• Need to fix errors found by pylint #721
• Tenancy: tenant name need to be unique #711
• Multitenancy - Unable to create a volume on a datastore which is not default #703
• Tenancy: Tenant rm command needs updates #688
• Tenancy: Better error message for docker commands #686
• Misleading error message when a wrong input is given during tenant create #685
• Admin CLI tenant help should print default values #683
• Improve the format of "tenant access ls" output #682
• The "--volume-maxcount" option is confusing #676
• Tenant cli improvement #675
• vSphere 6.5 readiness #666
• Cleanup work for "AdminCLI change to support multitenancy" #653
• Support python lint for the automated builds. #351

Merged pull requests:

• Include hostd logs on failure only #779 (kerneltime)
• Remove unused code around devfs management in vmdkops #775 (kerneltime)
• Get hostd logs for CI runs #774 (kerneltime)
• vmdk_ops.cloneVMDK: Fix source volume lockname #771 (brunotm)
• Vsan_policy_test: Additional log statement to the negative unit test #766 (ashahi1)
• [test] vmdk_ops: Log error output on get_vsan_devfs_path. #765 (brunotm)
• Fix displaying default opts for clone and fstype. #755 (brunotm)
• Add gitter #753 (kerneltime)
• Remove unused telegram broadcast group. #751 (kerneltime)
• Fix python and go lint #748 (brunotm)
• Get attached VM name for attached volume in admin CLI #745 (govint)
• Add support for waiting for any older build #742 (kerneltime)
• Run pylint as a part of the ESX build #739 (msterin)
• Address testbed setup and concurrency. #736 (kerneltime)
• Update steps for updating documentation online. #732 (kerneltime)
• code refactoring for tenant management API #729 (lipingxue)
• Add volume cloning support -o clone-from=volname #726 (brunotm)
• Fixed errors reported by pyLint #725 (msterin)
• Calculate allocated capacity and size on Get() across snaps of a volume #723 (govint)
• Pass current name of the VM thats attached a disk on Get() #722 (govint)
• Check attached status in removeVMDK before trying to remove volume #720 (brunotm)
• Confusing error message from volume.create when datastore is not writ… #718 (BaluDontu)
• Pass the kill switch into docker and nested Makefiles. #717 (kerneltime)
• Fix for vmdk-ops service unable to identify the newly mounted datasto… #714 (BaluDontu)
• Synchronise disklib operations in kvESX, add threadutils module. #708 (brunotm)
• Tenancy bug fixes #706 (pdhamdhere)
• Bring in the UI work #702 (kerneltime)
• Handle errors on Get() call from server. #699 (govint)
• Update Contributing.md #693 (divyenpatel)