Network

Review technology preview features for networking in Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager.

  • Host network interfaces configured to use ethtool or Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) custom properties.
  • PCI network cards attached directly to virtual machines (PCI passthrough or SR-IOV).
  • Network bonds that use bond modes 0 (round-robin policy), 2 (XOR policy), 3 (broadcast policy), and 5 (adaptive transmit load balancing policy).
  • Host network QoS (quality of service) entries to control the bandwidth a logical network uses on a physical interface.
  • Virtual machine network QoS entries to control to the input/output of VNICs.
  • External network providers, including the Open Virtual network (OVN) provider.

    Important:

    When using OVN, Manager hosts and compute hosts must be on the same version of Oracle Linux. Either Oracle Linux 8 must be used for both Manager and compute hosts, or Oracle Linux 9 must be used for Manager and compute hosts.

  • Network security groups provided by the OpenStack Neutron service.
  • Networks and interfaces managed with the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS).