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Product Roadmap

Disclaimer​

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These roadmaps are provided for informational purposes only. They represent Vates' current intentions and planned direction for product development.

The information contained herein does not constitute a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any feature, functionality, or product by any particular date.

Customers and partners should make purchasing and implementation decisions based on currently available features and functionality, not on the basis of future roadmap items.

Roadmaps​

Xen Orchestra 6​

  • XO6 VM creation (Update / New form)
  • XO6 - Network Creation
  • XO6 – VIF/Network Traffic Rules
  • XO6 Pool / Hosts/ VM stats
  • XO6 Storage Repositories lifecycle
  • XO6 VDI Lifecycle
  • XO6 ACLv2
  • XO6 Backup
  • XO6 Schedules

Xen Orchestra​

  • Monitoring Electrical Consumption
  • QCOW2 support production ready
  • Use SOBR Backup repository as mirror backup (Distributed backup and replication)
  • Airgap implementation
  • Continuous replication improvements (VM + snapshots on the replica site)
  • Bidirectional replication (Reverse DRP)
  • MCP Server Improvements (Token Authentication, list networks and SRs)
  • Add missing RRD metrics (vm/host io_throughput, vm/host Latency, host iops total)

Storage​

  • QCOW2 Production
  • Live Coalesce
  • Live VDI Resize
  • XOSTOR External witness (Support)
    • Enable 2-hosts XOSTOR pool
  • XOSTORv1 robustness
  • Performance improvement for XCPng8.3 (tapdisk)
  • XCPng9 Modern platform development

DevOps Tools​

  • Kubernetes XO CSI Driver beta
  • Terraform & Pulumi update
  • Talos Kubernetes on Vates VMS
  • CCM (Cloud Controller Manager) stable

XAPI​

  • ARM Support first milestone
    • Single-host xapi can boot and shutdown VMs, provide networking, storage, RRDs
    • Multi-host pools cold migration
  • QCOW2 (Support disks > 2TB) in production
  • Distributed tracing (productization) - Requirements / Configuration
  • Electrical/power usage metrics (IPMI) - Requirements definition
  • System Update Management (Project definition & Discovery)

Hypervisor & Kernel - R&D​

  • Topology, NUMA Support
  • Q35 - upstreaming in progress + PCI passthrough to develop/upstream
  • RISC V
  • AMD-SEV ES, SMP, MMIO
  • Kalray DPU Support (Upstream, robustness, improvements)
  • PV-IOMMU
  • Xen toolstack NG
  • Xen release management

Hypervisor & Kernel - XCP-ng​

  • POC ARM (memory issue with Andriy)
  • virtio-gpu (AMD)
  • Intel temperature sensor
  • Live migration performance improvements (Last transfer time)
  • Network persistent/static grant
  • Host Secure Boot (Signature Infrastructure)
  • NX bit (Setting bios to deactivate NX bit)

Hypervisor & Kernel - Tools​

  • Rust Linux Guest Tools 1.0 in XCP-ng and in distros
  • Windows Guest tools maintenance and enhancements
  • Windows PV tools - Improving the installation/removal/upgrades
  • Guest tools to provide guest OS storage consumption