Queens Series Release Notes

1.7.0

New Features

• Adds audit scoper for storage data model, now watcher users can specify audit scope for storage CDM in the same manner as compute scope.

• Adds baremetal data model in Watcher

• Added a way to check state of strategy before audit’s execution. Administrator can use “watcher strategy state <strategy_name>” command to get information about metrics’ availability, datasource’s availability and CDM’s availability.

• Added storage capacity balance strategy.

• Added strategy “Zone migration” and it’s goal “Hardware maintenance”. The strategy migrates many instances and volumes efficiently with minimum downtime automatically.

1.6.0

New Features

• Each CDM collector can have its own CDM scoper now. This changed Scope JSON schema definition for the audit template POST data. Please see audit template create help message in python-watcherclient.

1.5.0

New Features

• Existing workload_balance strategy based on the VM workloads of CPU. This feature improves the strategy. By the input parameter “metrics”, it makes decision to migrate a VM base on CPU or memory utilisation.