ORACLE – VM 3.4.2

During Oracle OpenWorld 2016, the company has announced new version (3.4.2) of their
virtualization platform
Some of the key new features that have been delivered include:

• Oracle VM Manager support for previous Oracle VM Server releases:

– Manage Oracle VM Server for x86 – 3.4.x, 3.3.x or 3.2.10/11 releases.
– Manage Oracle VM Server for SPARC – Agent 3.4.x or 3.3.x releases.

• Support for NVM Express (NVMe) devices:
– Discover NVMe devices and present them to Oracle VM Manager
– NVMe devices can be used to store virtual machine disks or create storage
repositories.

• Extended SCSI functionality available for virtual machines
– Linux guests can now retrieve vital product data (VPD) page 0x84 information
from physical disks if the device itself makes it available.
• The management domain (dom0) kernel upgraded to Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise
  Kernel Release 4 Update 2 (4.1.12-61.1.9)
• The Xen hypervisor performance and scalability updates:

– Improved memory allocation;
– Improved aggregate performance;
– Improved performance for Windows, Solaris and Linux guests;
– Improved workload performance;
– Guest disk I/O performance improvements.

• Oracle VM Manager performance enhancements – improved performance under
  heavy event load.
• Oracle VM Manager Rule for Live Migration – blocks unsupported Live Migration
  paths.
• Hot memory modification for HVM guests with para-virtualized I/O drivers (PVHVM) –
  modify the memory allocated to running PVM guests as well as PVHVM guests
  without a reboot.
• Package additions and updates.
Security updates for the embedded components of Oracle VM Server and Oracle VM
Manager.