Today, 2024-12-04, Nutanix released new versions of both AOS and AHV meaning the latest and greates versions are AOS 7.0 and AHV 10.0
A lot of new end enhanced features with these releases:
- One Node and One Disk (1N&1D) Cluster Fault Tolerance
- Cloud KMS support
- Optionally Disable CPU Hotplug on VMs
- NVMe Software Serviceability
- Increased Maximum Supported Memory on AHV Hosts 8 TB
- Centralized Password Management for AHV System Accounts
- Optionally Disable the SCSI Controller on VMs
- Support for NVIDIA A2 Tensor Core GPU card
- Support for NVIDIA H100 NVL GPU card
- Open Source Driver Support for L and H series GPU
- Semantic Versioning format for AHV
- VMs with WSL2 are supported for Intra-Cluster Live Migration Support
- PCIe Passthrough for Guest VMs
- Support for the Intel Sapphire Rapids CPU instructions
- Change Interface Ring Buffer Size on AHV
- Support of Repair Host Boot Disk and SSD Repair functionality in Prism Element for Compute-Only and Storage-Only nodes
- Support for boot device order configuration from aCLI
- Support for Skylake server on ESXi 8.0 Update 3
- Support for Storage Policy for Volume Groups on ESXi
In addition there are bug fixes for the following components:
- AHV Host
- AHV Management
- Alerts
- Cluster Conversion
- Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)
- Data Replication and Protection
- Encryption
- Infrastructure Services
- Life Cycle Manager (LCM)
- Microservices Platform (MSP)
- Networking
- Nutanix Guest Tools
- Prism
- Gateway
- UI
- Security-AOS
- Serviceability
- Zookeeper
AHV will no longer be bundled with AOS so the software included in this AOS release are:
- AOS 7.0
- Foundation 5.7
- Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT) 4.2
- Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) 5.1.0
- Life Cycle Manager (LCM) 3.1
As usual check Nutanix Software End Of Life document on a regular basis to keep you up to date.
Useful links
- AOS 7.0 Download
- AOS 7.0 Release Notes
- AHV 10.0 Download
- AHC 10.0 Release Notes
- Upgrade Path
- Hypervisor json files
- Nutanix Compatibility Matrix
- Software Product Interoperability
Njoy the new version and its capabilities & congrats Nutanix to this release