3.5. Technology Previews

Technology Preview features are not fully supported under Red Hat Subscription Service Level Agreements (SLAs), may not be functionally complete, and are not intended for production use. However, these features provide early access to upcoming product innovations, enabling customers to test functionality and provide feedback during the development process.
In this release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, the following new features were added as Technology Preview features:
  • OpenStack Volume (Cinder) as an external storage provider for virtual machine disks
In this release of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, the following features remain in Technology Preview status:
  • The Optimizer, a load balancing service that analyzes the memory usage of hosts in a particular cluster, and provides a suggested set of virtual machine migrations that will enable optimal virtual machine deployment across hosts
  • OpenStack Networking (Neutron) as an external network provider
  • SPICE HTML5 browser client, for connecting to virtual machine consoles