Oracle last week released a beta version of the upcoming version 3.3 of its enterprise virtualization solution Oracle VM. Oracle VM is available for both x86 and SPARC with a common management tool called Oracle VM Manager to manage the virtualization platform.
Version 3.3. provides the following new features:
- Web Services API offering both SOAP and REST interfaces
- Rewritten statistics and events model
- Server notification thresholding
- VM API Messaging improvements
- Certificate Based Authentication
- Changes to how communication between components takes place, reducing attack vectors
- Support for Oracle MySQL Enterprise database only
- Database consistency checking
- VM Console now uses JavaScript and HTML 5
- Better representation of network bridge and switch objects
- VLAN support improvements
- Support for HTTP Proxies
- SPARC support additions:
- Support for iSCSI, FibreChannel, ZFS and Local Disk for VM Assignment
- Package Management and SPARC Upgrades
- Support for HA Virtual Machines
- Network Support improvements, like Active-Backup bonding, VLAN integration, Jumbo Frames and MTU configuration
