Chapter 5. Feature Support
Red Hat CloudForms allows you to perform actions on the providers that it manages, and provides features for interacting with and providing information about those providers. This section outlines the status of support for actions that you can perform on providers, and the CloudForms features that allow you to interact with those providers.
You can run a rake command to retrieve a list of provider features supported across all platforms. Run the following command in your CloudForms appliance to retrieve the supported features in a comma-separated values (.csv) file format, which are displayed on the command-line interface (CLI) by default, however, you can use a pipe to redirect the output to a file.
ruby /var/www/miq/vmdb/tools/feature_support_matrix.rb
5.1. Infrastructure Providers
The following table outlines the status of support for Red Hat CloudForms features on infrastructure providers.
5.1.1. Red Hat Virtualization
The following table outlines the status of support for Red Hat CloudForms features on Red Hat Virtualization (RHV) infrastructure providers.
Table 5.1. Red Hat Virtualization Provider Feature Support
| Feature | RHV 4.0 | RHV 4.1 | RHV 4.2 | RHV 4.3 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Relationship Discovery | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VM Drift Comparison | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Track VM Genealogy | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Capacity & Utilization | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Capture Cloud Layer Timelines | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Capture VM/Instance Event Timelines | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Discovery - Provider | No | No | No | No |
| Disk Addition to VM/Instance | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Optimization - Bottleneck Identification | No | No | No | No |
| Reporting | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Right Sizing | Yes [a] | Yes [a] | Yes [a] | Yes [a] |
| Chargeback | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Remote Console VM Access | Yes [b] | Yes [b] | Yes [b] | Yes [b] |
| Snapshot Creation and Removal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VM / Instance Compliance Enforcement | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VM / Instance Policy Enforcement | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VM / Instance Power Operations | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VM / Instance Retirement | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Alerts - Real Time | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Alerts - VM Value Changed | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Alerts - Reconfigured | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Integrate with Service Catalogs | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Virtual Machine Reconfiguration | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Volume Inventory | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Volume Creation/Deletion | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| VM Migration | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Automation Work Flows | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Provider TLS | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Host Power Operations | No | No | No | No |
| Clone from VM/Instance to VM/Instance | No | No | No | No |
| Cloud-Init | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Customize Windows Templates with Sysprep during provision | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| OVN Provider [c] | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
[a]
Requires Capacity & Utilization
[b]
On some operating system and browser combinations
[c]
Feature in Technology Preview
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5.1.2. VMware vSphere
The following table outlines the status of support for Red Hat CloudForms features on VMware vSphere infrastructure providers.
Table 5.2. VMware vSphere Provider Feature Support
| Feature | vSphere 6.0 | vSphere 6.5 | vSphere 6.7 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Relationship Discovery | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VM Drift Comparison | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Track VM Genealogy | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Capacity & Utilization | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Capture Cloud Layer Timelines | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Capture VM Event Timelines | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Discovery - Provider | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Disk Addition to VM | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Optimization - Bottleneck Identification | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Reporting | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Right Sizing | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Chargeback | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Remote Console VM Access [a] | Yes [a] | Yes [a] | Yes [a] |
| Snapshot Creation and Removal | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VM/Instance Compliance Enforcement | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VM/Instance Policy Enforcement | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VM/Instance Power Operations | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| VM/Instance Retirement | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Alerts - Real Time | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Alerts - VM Value Changed | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Alerts - Reconfigured | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Integrate with Service Catalogs | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Virtual Machine Reconfiguration | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Volume Inventory | No | No | No |
| Volume Creation/Deletion | No | No | No |
| VM Migration | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Automation Work Flows | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Provider TLS | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Provision VM using PXE | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Provision VM using ISO | No | No | No |
| Provision from Template/Image to VM | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Provision from VM to Template/Image | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Host Power Operations | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Clone from VM to VM | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cloud-Init | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Customize Windows Templates with Sysprep during provision | No | No | No |
| OVN Provider | No | No | No |
[a]
On some operating system and browser combinations. See link:https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_cloudforms/4.7-beta/html/self_service_user_interface_guide/my-services-tab#html5-vm-console(Accessing the Virtual Machine Console) in the Red Hat CloudForms documentation.
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5.1.3. Microsoft SCVMM
The following table outlines the status of support for Microsoft SCVMM infrastructure providers.
Table 5.3. Microsoft SCVMM Provider Feature Support
| Feature | SCVMM 2012 R2 | SVMM 2016 |
|---|---|---|
| Relationship Discovery | Yes | Yes |
| VM Drift Comparison | Yes | Yes |
| Track VM Genealogy | N/A | N/A |
| Capacity & Utilization | Yes | Yes |
| Capture Cloud Layer Timelines | N/A | N/A |
| Capture VM/Instance Event Timelines | Yes | Yes |
| Discovery - Provider | No | No |
| Disk Addition to VM/Instance | N/A | N/A |
| Optimization - Bottleneck Identification | N/A | N/A |
| Reporting | Yes | Yes |
| Right Sizing | Yes | Yes |
| Chargeback | Yes | Yes |
| Remote Console VM Access [a] | N/A | N/A |
| Snapshot Creation and Removal | N/A | N/A |
| VM / Instance Compliance Enforcement | Yes | Yes |
| VM / Instance Policy Enforcement | Yes | Yes |
| VM / Instance Power Operations | Yes | Yes |
| VM / Instance Retirement | N/A | N/A |
| Alerts - Real Time | N/A | N/A |
| Alerts - VM Value Changed | N/A | N/A |
| Alerts - Reconfigured | N/A | N/A |
| Integrate with Service Catalogs | N/A | N/A |
| Virtual Machine Reconfiguration | N/A | N/A |
| Volume Inventory | N/A | N/A |
| Volume Creation/Deletion | N/A | N/A |
| VM Migration | N/A | N/A |
| Automation Work Flows | N/A | N/A |
| Provider TLS | N/A | N/A |
| Provision VM/Instance using PXE | No | No |
| Provision VM/Instance using ISO | No | No |
| Provision from Template/Image to VM/Instance | Yes | Yes |
| Provision from VM/Instance to Template/Image | No | No |
| Host Power Operations | Yes | Yes |
| Provision Host | Yes | Yes |
| Clone from VM/Instance to VM/Instance | No | No |
5.2. OpenStack Platform Director Infrastructure Providers
The following table outlines the status of support for Red Hat CloudForms features on OpenStack Platform (OSP) director infrastructure providers.
Table 5.4. OpenStack Platform Director Infrastructure Provider Feature Support
| Feature | OpenStack Platform (OSP) Director |
|---|---|
| Relationship Discovery | Yes |
| Nodes Inventory | Yes |
| OpenStack Services Inventory | Yes |
| Nodes Drift Comparison | Yes |
| Nodes Smart State | Yes |
| Capacity & Utilization | Yes |
| Capture Infrastructure Event Timelines | Yes |
| Node Power Operation | Yes |
| Capacity Planning | Yes |
| Reporting | Yes |
| Add/Remove Node | Yes |
| Scale Down Node | Yes (Compute nodes only) |
| Scale Up Nodes | Yes (Compute nodes only) |
| Nodes Policy Enforcement | Yes |
| Nodes Evacuate | Yes |
| OpenStack Upgrade | No |
5.3. Cloud Providers
The following section outlines the status of support for Red Hat CloudForms features on cloud providers.
5.3.1. Red Hat OpenStack Platform
The following table outlines the status of support for Red Hat CloudForms features on Red Hat OpenStack Platform (RHOSP) cloud providers.
Table 5.5. Red Hat OpenStack Platform Feature Support
| Feature | OSP 10 | OSP 13 | OSP 14 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Relationship Discovery | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Instance Drift Comparison | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Track Instance Genealogy | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Capacity & Utilization | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Capture Cloud Layer Timelines | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Capture Instance Event Timelines | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Discovery - Provider | No | No | No |
| Disk Addition to Instance | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Key Pairs Inventory | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Key Pairs Management | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Reporting | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Right Sizing | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Chargeback | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Remote Console Instance Access | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Snapshot Creation and Removal | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Instance Compliance Enforcement | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Instance Policy Enforcement | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Instance Power Operations | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Instance Retirement | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Alerts - Real Time | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Alerts - Instance Value Changed | No | No | No |
| Alerts - Reconfigured | No | No | No |
| Integrate with Service Catalogs | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Virtual Machine Reconfiguration | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Volume Inventory | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Volume Creation/Deletion | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Instance Migration | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Automation Work Flows | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Network Manager - CRUD Actions Supported | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Storage Manager | N/A | Yes | Yes |
| Provision Instance using PXE | No | No | No |
| Provision Instance using ISO | No | No | No |
| Provision from Template/Image to Instance | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Provision from Image Snapshot to Instance | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Provision from Volume to Instance | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Provision from Volume Snapshot to Instance | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Provision from Instance to Template/Image | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Clone from Instance to Instance | No | No | No |
| Cloud-Init | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Sysprep Windows Templates | Yes | Yes | Yes |
5.3.2. Amazon EC2
The following table outlines the status of support for Red Hat CloudForms features on Amazon EC2 cloud providers.
Support for specific cloud providers as a host is planned for deprecation in the next release of Red Hat CloudForms (CFME 5.11). Please see Deprecated Functionality for a complete list.
Table 5.6. Amazon EC2 Feature Support
| Feature | Amazon EC2 |
|---|---|
| Relationship Discovery | Yes |
| VM Drift Comparison | Yes |
| Track VM Genealogy | Yes |
| Capacity & Utilization | Yes |
| Capture Cloud Layer Timelines | N/A |
| Capture VM/Instance Event Timelines | Yes |
| Discovery - Provider | Yes |
| Disk Addition to VM/Instance | Yes |
| Key Pairs Inventory | Yes |
| Key Pairs Management | Yes |
| Optimization - Bottleneck Identification | N/A |
| Reporting | Yes |
| Right Sizing | Yes |
| Chargeback | Yes |
| Remote Console VM Access | No |
| Snapshot Creation and Removal | No |
| VM / Instance Compliance Enforcement | Yes |
| VM / Instance Policy Enforcement | Yes |
| VM / Instance Power Operations | Yes |
| VM / Instance Retirement | Yes |
| Alerts - Real Time | No |
| Alerts - VM Value Changed | No |
| Alerts - Reconfigured | No |
| Integrate with Service Catalogs | Yes |
| Virtual Machine Reconfiguration | No |
| Volume Inventory | No |
| Volume Creation/Deletion | No |
| VM Migration | No |
| Automation Work Flows | Yes |
| Network Manager - Read Only | Yes |
| Network Manager - CRUD Actions Supported | No |
| Storage Manager | Yes |
| Provider TLS | N/A |
| Provision VM/Instance using PXE | No |
| Provision VM/Instance using ISO | No |
| Provision from Template/Image to VM/Instance | Yes |
| Provision from VM/Instance to Template/Image | N/A |
| Host Power Operations | N/A |
| Provision Host | N/A |
| Clone from VM/Instance to VM/Instance | No |
5.3.3. Microsoft Azure
The following table outlines the status of support for Red Hat CloudForms features on Microsoft Azure cloud providers.
Support for specific cloud providers as a host is planned for deprecation the next release of Red Hat CloudForms (CFME 5.11). Please see Deprecated Functionality for a complete list.
Table 5.7. Microsoft Azure Feature Support
| Feature | Microsoft Azure |
|---|---|
| Relationship Discovery | Yes |
| VM Drift Comparison | Yes |
| Track VM Genealogy | Yes |
| Capacity & Utilization | Yes |
| Capture Cloud Layer Timelines | N/A |
| Capture VM/Instance Event Timelines | Yes |
| Discovery - Provider | Yes |
| Disk Addition to VM/Instance | Yes |
| Key Pairs Inventory | No |
| Key Pairs Management | Yes |
| Optimization - Bottleneck Identification | No |
| Reporting | Yes |
| Right Sizing | Yes |
| Chargeback | Yes |
| Remote Console VM Access | No |
| Snapshot Creation and Removal | No |
| VM / Instance Compliance Enforcement | Yes |
| VM / Instance Policy Enforcement | Yes |
| VM / Instance Power Operations | Yes |
| VM / Instance Retirement | Yes |
| Alerts - Real Time | No |
| Alerts - VM Value Changed | No |
| Alerts - Reconfigured | No |
| Integrate with Service Catalogs | Yes |
| Virtual Machine Reconfiguration | No |
| Volume Inventory | No |
| Volume Creation/Deletion | No |
| VM Migration | No |
| Automation Work Flows | No |
| Network Manager - Read Only | Yes |
| Network Manager - CRUD Actions Supported | No |
| Storage Manager | N/A |
| Provider TLS | N/A |
| Provision VM/Instance using PXE | No |
| Provision VM/Instance using ISO | No |
| Provision from Template/Image to VM/Instance | Yes |
| Provision from VM/Instance to Template/Image | N/A |
| Host Power Operations | N/A |
| Provision Host | N/A |
| Clone from VM/Instance to VM/Instance | No |
5.3.4. Google Compute Engine
The following table outlines the status of support for Red Hat CloudForms features on Google Compute Engine cloud providers.
Support for specific cloud providers as a host is planned for deprecation the next release of Red Hat CloudForms (CFME 5.11). Please see Deprecated Functionality for a complete list.
Table 5.8. Google Compute Engine Feature Support
| Feature | Google Compute Engine |
|---|---|
| Relationship Discovery | Yes |
| VM Drift Comparison | No |
| Track VM Genealogy | Yes |
| Capacity & Utilization | Yes |
| Capture Cloud Layer Timelines | No |
| Capture VM/Instance Event Timelines | Yes |
| Discovery - Provider | Yes |
| Disk Addition to VM/Instance | Yes |
| Key Pairs Inventory | No |
| Key Pairs Management | Yes |
| Optimization - Bottleneck Identification | No |
| Reporting | Yes |
| Right Sizing | Yes |
| Chargeback | Yes |
| Remote Console VM Access | No |
| Snapshot Creation and Removal | No |
| VM / Instance Compliance Enforcement | No |
| VM / Instance Policy Enforcement | Yes |
| VM / Instance Power Operations | Yes |
| VM / Instance Retirement | Yes |
| Alerts - Real Time | No |
| Alerts - VM Value Changed | No |
| Alerts - Reconfigured | No |
| Integrate with Service Catalogs | Yes |
| Virtual Machine Reconfiguration | No |
| Volume Inventory | Yes |
| Volume Creation/Deletion | No |
| VM Migration | No |
| Automation Work Flows | Yes |
| Network Manager - Read Only | Yes |
| Network Manager - CRUD Actions Supported | No |
| Storage Manager | N/A |
| Provider TLS | N/A |
| Provision VM/Instance using PXE | No |
| Provision VM/Instance using ISO | No |
| Provision from Template/Image to VM/Instance | Yes |
| Provision from VM/Instance to Template/Image | |
| Host Power Operations | N/A |
| Provision Host | N/A |
| Clone from VM/Instance to VM/Instance | No |
5.4. Container Providers
The following section outlines the status of support for Red Hat CloudForms features on OpenShift Container Platform container providers.
Support for specific providers as a host is planned for deprecation the next release of Red Hat CloudForms (CFME 5.11). Please see Deprecated Functionality for a complete list.
Table 5.9. OpenShift Container Platform Provider Feature Support
| Feature | OCP 3.9 | OCP 3.10 | OCP 3.11 |
| Relationship Discovery | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Track Container Image Relationship | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Capacity & Utilization | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Capture Container Event Timelines | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Discovery - Provider | No | No | No |
| Reporting | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Chargeback | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Remote Cockpit Node Access | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Container Node Compliance Enforcement | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Container Node Policy Enforcement | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Replicator Compliance Enforcement | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Replicator Policy Enforcement | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Pod Compliance Enforcement | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Pod Policy Enforcement | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Image Compliance Enforcement | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Image Policy Enforcement | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Template Provisioning | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Smart State | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| OpenSCAP Execution and Report | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cross Linking Underlying Infrastructure | Yes | Yes | Yes |
5.5. Network Providers
This section outlines the status of support for Red Hat CloudForms features on network providers.
Table 5.10. Network Provider Feature Support
| Feature | Red Hat OpenStack Platform (OSP) | Amazon EC2 | Microsoft Azure | Google Compute Engine |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Network Manager Relationships | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Relationship Discovery | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cloud Network Inventory | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cloud Subnet Inventory | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Network Router Inventory | Yes | No | No | Yes |
| Security Groups | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Floating IP Addresses | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Network Ports | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Load Balancer Inventory | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Create/Update/Delete Network | Yes | No | No | No |
| Create/Update/Delete Subnet | Yes | No | No | No |
| Create/Update/Delete Routers | Yes | No | No | No |
5.6. Configuration Management Providers
The following table outlines the status of support for Red Hat CloudForms features on configuration management providers.
Table 5.11. Configuration Management Provider Feature Support
| Feature | Ansible Tower |
|---|---|
| Groups Inventory | Yes |
| Configured Systems Inventory | Yes |
| Job Template Inventory | Yes |
| Integrate with Service Catalog | Yes |
| Automate Workflows | Yes |
| Workflows | Yes |
- Red Hat CloudForms 4.7 supports Ansible Tower 3.3 and 3.5 as a configuration management provider.
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