[Rhev-announce] Red Hat Virtualization newsletter, pre-Summit edition April 2019

[Peter Lauterbach]

Dear virtualization gurus, some important RHV updates for you to share.

   1. Updates to RHV Life Cycle Dates
   2. RHV 4.2 - Metrics Store and Channel/Subscription
   3. upcoming RHV 4.3 General Availability
   4. RH Summit 2019 RHV presentations
   5. RHV customer and partner meetings at Summit (time sensitive)
   6. RHV.next release planning

*1. Updates to RHV Life Cycle Dates*
We have continued commitment for development and support for RHV in the
coming years, and updated the RHV Life Cycle Dates
<https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/rhev> with our current
plan of record for support.  This is a public document, share this
information with customers, partners, and prospects as needed.


*2. RHV 4.2 - Metrics Store and Channel/Subscription*
We released a special a-sync update for 4.2.8, with a metrics fix based on
OCP 3.11 and an improved deployment experience. This solution is similar to
the one for RHV 4.3 (other than fluentd which is being replaced by
rsyslog).  The updated 4.2 documentation
<https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_virtualization/4.2/html/metrics_store_installation_guide/index>
is
publicly available.  See Doron's original announcement
<http://post-office.corp.redhat.com/archives/rhev-tech/2019-April/msg00146.html>
to
rhev-tech


*3. upcoming RHV 4.3 General Availability*
Engineering and QE have been hard at work on RHV 4.3, target GA of
30-Apr-2019.  A whole bunch of virtualization goodness coming with RHEL8
guests, Ansible integration, IBM Power9, and more. Look for a formal
announcement and training coming soon.

*4. Summit 2019 RHV presentations*

   - *Production-ready virtualization* with Red Hat (Andrew Sullivan,
   Martin Perina)
   - *Virtualization now and in the future: Enterprise virtualization to
   container-native virtualization* (Andrew Sullivan, Doron Fediuck)
   - *Utilizing NVIDIA GPUs in virtualized deployments with Red Hat’s
   infrastructure portfolio* (Martin Tessun; Michael Shen, NVIDIA; Shawn
   Hall, Numerical Algorithms Group)
   - Look for RHV in the IT Optimization booth.

*5. RHV customer and partner meetings at Summit (time sensitive)*
We have strong representation from RHV Engineering (Doron F, Michal S, and
others) and product management and marketing.  (Andrew S, Martin T, Moran
G, Peter L)
This is a great opportunity to meet the team guiding and building RHV; to
discuss our continued innovation for RHV, sharing our roadmap and better
understand their success, challenges, and concerns.
Time slots are filling up fast, please schedule your customers and partners
*ASAP* to meet with Doron, myself, and Martin using the the Jifflenow
<https://redhat.jifflenow.com/summit2019/> scheduling app.

*6. RHV.next release planning*
Demonstrating our strong commitment to RHV, we begin planning the next
release right after Summit.  The main theme is full support for RHEL8,
target for this RHV release is Q2 CY 2020.  We're reviewing existing RFEs
and BZ for consideration in this release. If you have critical or important
RFEs for customers, please send them rhev-pm <rhev-pm at redhat.com> mailing
list for consideration.

Thanks for your efforts in making our customers successful with RHV.
Please contact me with any questions or comments.

Best regards,
Peter

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PETER LAUTERBACH

RED HAT CLOUD PLATFORMS PRODUCT MANAGEMENT

Red Hat <https://www.redhat.com/>

pelauter at redhat.com

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