Platform9 Managed KubeVirt 5.6 Release Notes
The Platform9 Managed KubeVirt version 5.6 release is now available, bringing a whole new UI, feature enhancements, and bug fixes.
What's New
New User Experience
The PMK 5.6 release brings a completely new user experience with a more intuitive and easy-to-use UI. The day to day operations of Kubevirt management can easily be accomplished via an ease-to-use intuitive UI.
The Virtual Machines overview page now combines statuses of both the VMs & VMIs in a central view. With a quick glance, an administrator can view health status, networking details, cluster/node info and guest OS all from a single pane of glass.
The VM details view now has disk information that contains not only the disk name but the disk type (e.g. data volume or cloud-init), capacity, access mode, status, source, & storage class.
Events
With the arrival of PMK version 5.6, we have included the ability to access virtual machine events from the events tab for each VM. Users can review KubeVirt events directly from the VM details page by selecting the events tab across the top making it easier to track and troubleshoot VM actions.
Console
The KubeVirt console provides graphical access (VNC) to manage the VM via the console management button on the VM details view.
Live Migration
Live Migration allows a VM instance to move from one host to another host while the guest workload continues to run, enabling the VM to be highly available. Platform9 Managed KubeVirt enables this functionality by default and provides access to migrate a VM from the UI by selecting "Migrate VM" from the management actions in the VM details view.
Selecting a new "Migrate VM" management action initiates a confirmation window that allows the administrator to cancel or continue to Migrate Virtual Machine Instance. Once the live migration is started, KubeVirt will determine which target host the VM instance will be migrated to.
