The Oracle VM Server for SPARC OpenStack Nova Driver 1.0 includes the following features and capabilities:
Logical domain instances
Supports Oracle Solaris 10, Oracle Solaris 11, and Linux for SPARC 1.0 (experimental) as guest domains
Includes an historical console log
Supports VNC and an serial console (experimental)
Supports live migration and cross-CPU live migration for Oracle Solaris OS guest domains
Includes unique Oracle VM Server for SPARC capabilities such as whole-core and max-core constraints
Supports Nova evacuation on shared storage only
Supports Solaris WAN boot
Supports parallel guest domain deployment
Networking
Supports VLAN and flat networks
Supports alternate MAC addresses and optionally permits for extra VNICs to be created within a logical domain
Supports multi-homed network connectivity to guest domains
Supports multiple virtual switches for physical separation of network traffic
Supports varied MTU frame sizes
Supports the dynamic attachment and detachment of network ports for Solaris guest domains
Note that only the Neutron ML2 core plugin can be used with Oracle VM Server for SPARC. The Oracle Solaris OS elastic virtual switch (EVS) is not supported for use with this Nova driver.
Storage
Supports Cinder volumes that use Fibre Channel and iSCSI
Supports locally managed storage for NFS, local file systems, and ZFS volumes
Supports multiple virtual disks
Supports dynamic volume attachment and detachment for Oracle Solaris OS guest domains
Supports the automatic resizing of disk labels, slices, and file systems for Oracle Solaris OS guest domains (EFI and VTOC) and for Linux for SPARC 1.0 (VTOC only)