This section discusses any limitations when using Oracle VM Server for SPARC and managing those servers in Oracle VM Manager.
There are a number of features that exist in Oracle VM Server for SPARC that cannot be represented in Oracle VM Manager at this time. Those feature are:
Assigning crypto accelerators to guest domains. This is a feature on SPARC servers prior to the T4 series.
Whole-core and max-cores constraints.
Multiple service domains, which are typically used to provide redundancy.
There are a number of features that exist in Oracle VM Manager that cannot be used in a server pool that contains Oracle VM Server for SPARC servers. Those feature are:
ISCSI or Fibre Channel storage. NFS storage is, however, supported.
Server pools cannot be HA-enabled.
Yum updates/upgrades of Oracle VM Servers.
Virtual machine suspend and resume functionality.