Feature Pack 1 till XenServer 5.6 är äntligen släppt

"I mitten av december" sa man att Feature Pack 1 skulle släppas.
Den 15 december så släpptes den. Med andra ord precis mitt i december. :)

Så vad är nytt? Vi tar det från readme filen:
New Features
XenServer 5.6 Feature Pack 1 includes a number of new features and ongoing improvements, including:

• Distributed Virtual Switching provides distributed, fine-grained networking configuration and control policies, which increase visibility into XenServer virtual networks. Support for the vSwitch has been added as a post-install option on XenServer hosts, as well as a Controller for administration of multiple vSwitches and cross-server private networks.
• Jumbo Frames are now supported for storage networks when the vSwitch is used.
• VM Protection and Recovery: configure scheduled snapshots and (optional) archive of virtual machines.
• Web Self-Service provides browser-based access to selected virtual machines by delegated administrators.
• Boot from SAN with multipathing support: boot XenServer hosts with HBAs from a SAN, with multipathing support.
• HA Restart Priority: configure HA policies to restart specific VMs first.
• Enhanced XenCenter, including workload reporting for VM utilization and chargeback.
• Improved MPP RDAC multipathing, including path health reporting and alerting in XenCenter.
• Snapshot improvements, including improved reclamation of space after VM snapshots are deleted, even if the VM is running.
• Enhanced guest OS support for Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 11 SP1.
• Generic Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.x support: RHEL / CentOS / Oracle Enterprise Linux versions 5.0 to 5.5 support with a generic RHEL 5 template.
• Brocade HBA drivers and command-line tools are included in XenServer.
• Provisioning Services improvements to Windows volume license (MAK and KMS) support.
• XenDesktop platform enhancements provide local host caching of VM images to reduce storage TCO for XenDesktop VDI deployments. (Note: these platform enhancements will be enabled by a future version of XenDesktop).

Det finns några kända problem med tillhörande lösningar (typ att på vissa processorer (Intel 55xx och Intel 56xx) skall man stänga av C-states i bios) så kika igenom readme-filen....