Release 3.4.2 of the Oracle VM PV Drivers for Microsoft Windows introduces new features and enhancements along with a cumulative list of bug fixes.
New Features and Enhancements
Release 3.4.2 provides the following new features and enhancements:
The Oracle VM PV Drivers for Microsoft Windows now support Microsoft Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) on the following guest operating systems in an Oracle VM Release 3.4.3 or later environment:
Before using WSFC capabilities, you should review the following points:
Physical disks only can be shared among Windows Server guests that use SCSI-3 persistent reservations to form a WSFC cluster.
Live migration is not supported for Windows Server guests in WSFC clusters that have a shared physical disk assigned to them. The shared physical disk must be moved to another guest before live migration can occur.
You cannot run Windows Server guests in the same WSFC cluster on the same instance of Oracle VM Server.
Notable Bug Fixes
Release 3.4.2 provides a cumulative update of fixes, as follows:
Windows blue screen occurs on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 guests during live migration. Bug 23542956
Cannot copy large files to Microsoft Windows Server 2012 guests after installing Oracle VM PV Drivers for Microsoft Windows. Bug 23326764
Packet loss occurs after installing Oracle VM PV Drivers for Microsoft Windows. Bug 21430532
Microsoft Windows guests do not start correctly when using the Xen driver domain. Bug 22243923
Performance issues occur on the host machine when you create a WSFC cluster from Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 guests that share 10 or more LUNs in a SAN array. Bug 24595207