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What’s New in Oracle VM Server?
This Preface introduces the new features and enhancements of Oracle VM Server. This
information is useful to users who have used previous releases of Oracle VM Server.
The releases discussed are:
■ New Features in Release 2.1.5
■ New Features in Release 2.1.2
■ New Features in Release 2.1.1
New Features in Release 2.1.5
There are no new features in Oracle VM Server Release 2.1.5. A number of software
and documentation errata have been fixed.
New Features in Release 2.1.2
The new features and enhancements in Oracle VM Server Release 2.1.2 include:
■ High Availability of server pools and guests. See Chapter 9, "High Availability",
and the Oracle VM Manager User's Guide.
■ Converting a Linux host to a guest image, and converting a VMware image to an
Oracle VM image. See Chapter 8, "Converting Hosts and VMware Virtual
Machines".
■ Quality of Service configuration options for guest virtual network interfaces and
virtual disks. See Quality of Service (QoS) in Appendix C, "Guest Configuration",
and the Oracle VM Manager User's Guide.
■ Support for the following Ethernet controllers for hardware virtualized guests:
– Intel 8255x 10/100 Mbps (e100)
– Intel 82540EM Gigabit (e1000)
– Broadcom NetXtreme II (bnx2)
– Broadcom Everest 10GB (bnx2x)
– Broadcom NetXtreme and Netlink (tg3)
– Chelsio T3 Third Generation 10Gb (cxgb3)
– Qlogic Fibre Channel HBA (qla2xxx)
– QLogic QLE8000
– Emulex Fibre Channel HBA (lpfc)
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