The XenServer team is pleased to announce the availability of the third alpha release in the Dundee release train. This release includes a number of performance oriented items and includes three new functional areas.
- Microsoft Windows 10 driver support is now present in the XenServer tools. The tools have yet to be WHQL certified and are not yet working for GPU use cases, but users can safely use them to validate Windows 10 support.
- FCoE storage support has been enabled for the Linux Bridge network stack. Note that the default network stack is OVS, so users wishing to test FCoE will need to convert the network stack to Bridge and will need to be aware of the feature limitations in Bridge relative to OVS.
- Docker support present in XenServer 6.5 SP1 is now also present in Dundee
Considerable work has been performed to improve overall I/O throughput on larger systems and improve system responsiveness under heavy load. As part of this work, the number of vCPUs available to dom0 have been increased on systems with more than 8 pCPUs. Early results indicate a significant improvement in throughput compared to Creedence. We are particularly interested in hearing from users who have previously experienced responsiveness or I/O bottlenecks to look at Alpha.3 and provide their observations.
Dundee alpha.3 can be downloaded from the pre-release download page.
