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Features of Eucalyptus 1.6
Eucalyptus version 1.6 incorporates several new features and improvements. Following is a summary of major changes from version 1.5:
- Deployment on multiple clusters
- Deployment of components (Cloud controller, Walrus, Storage Controller, Cluster Controller) on different machines
- Enhanced maintenance support: components are now "crash consistent," maintaining state across process restart or machine crash
- Dynamic DNS support: instances and buckets can now be accessed via hostnames
- Enhanced concurrency management: cloud requests are serviced asynchronously with minimal locking using eventual consistency for scale
- Support for open-source monitoring and health/status: Ganglia and Nagios interaction
- Re-engineered front-end Web-services stack to be faster and more robust
- Several fixes for S3 API compatibility
- Networking improvements, including multi-cluster support
- Improved hypervisor support
- Improved startup
- Web UI improvements including ability to select from themes (at compile time).
- Building and installation improvements
For a more detailed list, see the 1.6 Changelog: