Feature Support and Stability

In the spirit of openness and time-saving, this page contains a matrix chart to describe the feature stability by release so that companies, organizations, and individuals can see which version has certain features that are stable and indicate which features that are experimental.

OpenStack Compute (Nova)

Feature

Austin

Bexar

Cactus

"D"

General

Install from Package

N1

Y

Y

Y

Migration of database on upgrade

N

Y

Y

Y

Hypervisors/Virtualization

Support for KVM

Y

Y

Y

Y

Support for Xen

E2

Y

Y

Y

Support for Hyper-V

N

Y

Y

Y

Support for VMware ESX/ESXi

N

N

Y3

Y

Image Management

AMI images

Y

Y

Y

Y

Raw Images

N

Y

Y

Y

Networking

VlanManager

Y

Y

Y

Y

FlatManager

Y

Y

Y

Y

DHCPManager

Y

Y

Y

Y

Authentication/Authorization

LDAP store

Y

Y

Y

Y

SQL store

Y

Y

Y

Y

N - Feature not included

Y - Feature fully supported

E - Feature was experimental

  1. Bug 668342 fixed after Austin release

  2. There was partial XenAPI coverage
  3. Implements support for VMware vSphere 4.1 as a compute provider within Nova. vCenter is not required by the current design, and is not currently supported. Instead, Nova Compute talks directly to ESX/ESXi. Flat and VLAN networking only.

Also see HypervisorSupportMatrix

Wiki: FeatureMatrix (last edited 2011-04-20 19:40:37 by Will Sheldon)