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* Oracle VM Manager: web based management console to manage Oracle VM Servers.
* Oracle VM Server: includes a version of [[Xen]] hypervisor technology, and the Oracle VM Agent to communicate with Oracle VM Manager for management of virtual machines. It also includes a minimized Linux kernel as [[Dom0]].
==Versions==
* 3.4.6.3 - 3 June 2020<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/oracle-vm-release-3463-is-now-available|title=Oracle VM release 3.4.6.3 is now available!|last=Priest|first=John|access-date=2020-09-28}}</ref>
**Export VMs to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
**security updates
**cumulative bug fixes
* 3.4.6.2 - 13 December 2019<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/oracle-vm-release-3462-is-now-available|title=Oracle VM release 3.4.6.2 is now available!|last=Priest|first=John|access-date=2020-02-24}}</ref>
**Additional Linux guest OS support ([[Oracle Linux]] 8.x, [[Red Hat Enterprise Linux]] 8.x, and [[CentOS]] 8.x)
**security updates
**cumulative bug fixes
**new release model
* 3.4.6.1 - 18 June 2019<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/oracle-vm-release-3461-is-now-available|title=Oracle VM release 3.4.6.1 is now available!|last=Priest|first=John|access-date=2020-02-24}}</ref>
**updated versions of the Oracle VM Manager and Oracle VM Agent for SPARC
**security updates
**cumulative bug fixes
* 3.4.6 - 30 November 2018<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/oracle-vm-release-346-is-now-available|title=Announcing Oracle VM Release 3.4.6|last=Priest|first=John|access-date=2018-11-30}}</ref>
**Updated Xen hypervisor
**Update to the dom0 kernel
**Security and patch updates for Oracle VM Server for x86 packages
**Security and patch updates for Oracle VM Manager components
**New User-Defined Validity in Months Option for Self-Signed SSL Certificates
**New Option to Change the Location of a Running Virtual Machine
**Increased Virtual CPU Configuration Limit for HVM and PVHVM
*3.4.5 - 7 June 2018<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/oracle-vm-release-345-is-now-available|title=Announcing Oracle VM Release 3.4.5|last=Priest|first=John|access-date=2018-06-07}}</ref>
**Support for Hybrid Columnar Compression (HCC) for better Oracle Database performance
**A new Fiber Channel storage refresh option with Oracle generic storage plugin deployments
**A new Balance Server start policy to complement the Best Server policy
**Increased performance for Microsoft Windows guest operating systems
**Support for TLS1.2 as the default connectivity protocol
**Update to the dom0 kernel
**Updated Xen hypervisor
**Security and patch updates for Oracle VM Manager components
**Security and patch updates for Oracle VM Server for x86 packages
*3.4.4 - 25 August 2017<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/announcing-oracle-vm-release-344|title=Announcing Oracle VM Release 3.4.4|last=Priest|first=John|access-date=2018-02-09}}</ref>
**[https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37670_01/E69348/html/ol_changes.html Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 4] (UEK R4)
** Server package updates
** Security updates for Manager components and Server packages
** Updated Xen hypervisor for improved throughput and IOPS performance
**Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2016
**Support for Skylake processors
* 3.4.3 - 12 May 2017<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/announcing-oracle-vm-release-343|title=Announcing Oracle VM Release 3.4.3|last=Priest|first=John|access-date=2018-02-09}}</ref>
**The ability to run Microsoft Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC) with the Oracle VM Windows PV Driver 3.4.2
**Enhanced RAID functionality, with support for software RAID devices
**Manager performance and supportability enhancements
**Simplified UEFI PXE boot process for Oracle VM Server for x86
**Updated Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel Release 4 and updates to other server packages
**Security updates for manager components and server packages
* 3.4.2 - September 2016<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/oracle-vm-342-released|title=Oracle VM 3.4.2 Released!|last=Priest|first=John|access-date=2018-02-09}}</ref>
** Includes an updated DOM0 kernel based on the 4.1 mainline kernel via Oracle Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) Release 4 update 2.
** Adds NVME support, extended SCSI support in the guest OS, numerous performance improvements in the host and guest OS, Oracle VM manager performance and scalability improvements, and security improvements.
**Extended SCSI functionality available for virtual machines
* 3.4.1 - April, 2016<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/2235173|title=Oracle Announces Oracle VM 3.3|access-date=2 July 2014}}</ref>
** Support for Oracle VM Virtual Appliances
**Automated installation of VNC and Serial Console software
**Storage live migration
**User interface enhancements for virtual disk allocation
**Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) support
**Booting from UEFI
**Dom0 kernel upgraded
**Increased supported limits
**Improved performance
==Resource limits==
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