Nova (Compute) Live migration improvements: In addition to using a separate network for live migrations, Nova now makes it much easier to manage live migrations, with functionality in both the REST API and python-novaclient to handle the process. You also now have the ability to force or abort a migration, or check on its progress. Scheduling improvements: Nova includes a new scheduling filter which enables you to specify that workloads should be placed on the host with the most available disk space. Hybrid cloud support and scalability: OpenStack has had an on-again off-again relationship with Amazon Web Services EC2 support; in OpenStack Mitaka, it’s on-again. This release includes a new ec2-api project to help facilitate bursting to public cloud when more resources are needed. Neutron (Networking) Ease of use: Neutron new includes a “get me a network” function that simplifies what has traditionally been a difficult, error-prone, multi-step task. (Note that work
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