3.3 What's New in Oracle VM Release 3.3.3?

Oracle VM Release 3.3.3 includes separate patches for Oracle VM Manager, Oracle VM Server, and Oracle VM Agent for SPARC as follows:

  • Oracle VM Manager: patch ID 20492250.

  • Oracle VM Server: patch ID 20492240.

  • Oracle VM Agent for SPARC: patch ID 20492222.

Download the patches from My Oracle Support.

The new features and enhancements in Oracle VM Release 3.3.3 include:

Infrastructure

  • Support for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE): Oracle VM now includes drivers to detect Converged Network Adapters (CNA). These drivers make it possible to install Oracle VM Server into an FCoE SAN. (20140781)

  • Maximum vCPU limit: The maximum vCPU limit of 128 for Oracle VM Server for SPARC is removed in this release. (20576711)

  • Support of Converged Network Adapters: The Oracle VM Server installer is updated in this release to support more Converged Network Adapters (CNA) such as HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 536FLB Adapter, Broadcom 57840S CNA, etc. (20492419)

  • Updated hwdata package: The hwdata package has been updated to hwdata-0.233-11.1.el6.noarch.rpm to list recently released network adapters. (20854084)

  • Updated OvmClient.jar library: The corporate signing authority for the OvmClient.jar library has been updated. (20488470)

  • Updated virtual machine console packages: The ovmcore-console-1.0-42.rpm package has been added to the Oracle VM Manager Web Interface and is updated on the Oracle VM Manager ISO. (20138989)

  • Oracle VM Server dracut packages: This release adds the dracut-fips package and the dracut-network package to the Oracle VM Server ISO. This release also includes updates to the dracut-004 package and the dracut-kernel package. (20829905)

Installation and Upgrades

  • Installer check before upgrading: As of this release, the Oracle VM Manager installation program now checks for sufficient /tmp space before starting an upgrade of Oracle VM. (20347269)

  • Delete running jobs: The Oracle VM Manager upgrade script now allows you to delete running jobs so that the upgrade can proceed. (20103466)

Networking

  • Support for TCP-based NFS Repository Mounts: Repositories hosted on an NFS share are mounted using TCP by default, with the option to failback to UDP, in this release. (14692942)

  • Add Python networking package: This release adds the python-ipaddr-2.1.9-3.el6.noarch.rpm package to Oracle VM Server for improved IPv6 support. (20855848)

Performance

  • Improved navigation performance in the Oracle VM Manager Web Interface: This release provides improved performance when navigating to VLAN information. (20814204)

  • Quicker response times in the Oracle VM Manager Web Interface Health tab: This release provides improved performance when navigating through the Health tab. (20963394)

  • Retrieving available servers for virtual machines: This release improves the time it takes to retrieve a list of available servers for virtual machines. (20982855)

  • Improved performance when expanding tree nodes in the Oracle VM Manager Web Interface: This release provides improved performance when expanding a tree node that contains a large number of servers. (20305165)

Security

  • Oracle MySQL patch update: This release of Oracle VM includes the April 2015 Critical Patch Update for MySQL. (20916257)

  • Oracle WebLogic patch update: This release of Oracle VM includes the April 2015 Critical Patch Update for WebLogic. (20918659)

  • Oracle Java patch update: This release of Oracle VM includes the April 2015 Critical Patch Update for Java. (20918735)

  • UEK3 quarterly update: This release of Oracle VM includes the UEK3 quarterly update 5. (20594222)

  • Xen security advisories: The following Xen security advisories are included in this release:

    • XSA-136 (CVE-2015-4164)

    • XSA-134 (CVE-2015-4163)

    • XSA-135 (CVE-2015-3209)

Oracle VM Security Advisories

This release includes the following Oracle VM Security Advisories:

Table 3.2 Oracle VM Security Advisories

Advisory Identifier

Severity

Description

OVMSA-2015-0040

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 kernel-uek security update

OVMSA-2015-0054

Moderate

Oracle VM 3.3 krb5 security update

OVMSA-2015-0055

Moderate

Oracle VM 3.3 glibc security update

OVMSA-2015-0056

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 kernel-uek security update

OVMSA-2015-0057

Critical

Oracle VM 3.3 Xen security update

OVMSA-2015-0060

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 kernel-uek security update

OVMSA-2015-0064

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 Xen security update

OVMSA-2015-0065

Moderate

Oracle VM 3.3 Openssl security update

OVMSA-2015-0067

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 Xen security update

OVMSA-2015-0070

Moderate

Oracle VM 3.3 Openssl security update

OVMSA-2015-0071

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 cups security update

OVMSA-2015-0072

Important

Oracle VM 3.3 kernel-uek security update

OVMSA-2015-0073

Moderate

Oracle VM 3.3 nss security update