RHBA-2021:5203 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated VDSM packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available.

Description

VDSM is a management module that serves as a Red Hat Virtualization Manager agent on Red Hat Virtualization Hosts or Red Hat Enterprise Linux hosts.

Changes to the VDSM component:

• With this enhancement, when scheduling a virtual machine with pinned NUMA nodes, memory requirements are calculated correctly by taking into account the available memory as well as hugepages allocated on NUMA nodes.

This enhancement applies only to Red Hat Virtuaization 4.3 hosts running VDSM; a Manager with version 4.4 or later is needed to take advantage of this enhancement. (BZ#2024575)

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/2974891

Affected Products

• Red Hat Virtualization 4 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Virtualization for IBM Power LE 4 for RHEL 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 2024575 - [RHV 4.4] In RHV with SAP HANA, Make NUMA work with hugepages with vdsm 4.30

CVEs

(none)

References

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