Nova Stein Specifications¶
Stein implemented specs:
- Filter Allocation Candidates by Provider Tree
- Network Bandwidth resource provider
- Boot instance specific storage backend
- Configure maximum number of volumes to attach
- Expose virtual device tags in REST API
- Flavor Extra Spec and Image Properties Validation
- Generic os-vif datapath offloads
- Handling a down cell
- Default allocation ratio configuration
- Use conductor groups to partition nova-compute services for Ironic
- Live-Migration force after timeout
- Per aggregate scheduling weight
- Per-instance serial number
- Remove force flag from live-migrate and evacuate
- show which server group a server is in “nova show”
- Support High Precision Event Timer (HPET) on x86 guests
- Support to query nova resources filter by changes-before
- VMware live migration
- vRouter Hardware Offload Enablement
Stein approved (but not implemented) specs:
- Add support for emulated virtual TPM
- libvirt driver launching AMD SEV-encrypted instances
- Count quota usage from placement
- Select cpu model from a list of cpu models
- Cross-cell resize
- Detach and attach boot volumes
- Enable Rebuild for Instances in cell0
- Introduce Pending VM state
- Neutron SR-IOV Port Live Migration
- Expose persistent serial numbers for local disks
- Support filtering by forbidden aggregate membership
- NUMA-aware live migration
- Support any traits in allocation_candidates query
- Support mixing required traits with any traits
- Handling Reshaped Provider Trees
- Show server numa topology
- libvirt: Supporting multiple vGPU types for a single pGPU
- volume-backed server rebuild
