Yesterday, December 2:nd 2019, Nutanix released new version of their core HCI product Nutanix Acropolis Operating System (AOS) formerly known as Nutanix Operating System (NOS). In addition there was a new version released, matching AOS 5.11.2, for Prism Central and AHV version 20170830.337 was declared GA with version 1.0.
AOS 5.11 is a Short Term Support (STS) release and you can read more about difference between STS and Long Term Support (LTS) releases here.
AOS 5.11 comes with a lot of new features and improvements and below I have mentioned some of them:
- AHV
- AHV-Management
- Capacity Planning
- Data Protection
- Encryption
- Flow
- Infrastructure / Services
- Nutanix Cluster Check
- Nutanix Files
- Prism
- Prism Gateway
- Prism UI
- Security
- Xi Leap
- DR between ESXi and AHV clusters
- Support for VMware vNetwork Distributed Switches
As usual check Nutanix Software End Of Life document on a regular basis to keep you up to date.
Useful links
- AOS 5.11 Download
- AOS 5.11 Release Notes
- Prism Central 5.11 Download
- Prism Central 5.11 Release Notes
- AHV 20170830.337 Download
- AHV 20170830-337 Relese Notes
- Witness VM 5.11.2 Download
- Witness VM 5.11 Installation Documentation
- Witness VM 5.11 Upgrade Documentation
- Upgrade Path
- Hypervisor json files
- Nutanix Compatibility Matrix
- Software Product Interoperability
Njoy the new release