Yesterday, 2020-08-25, was a great Nutanix release day including new versions of:
- Acropolis Operating System (AOS) – Version 5.18 which is a Short Term Support (STS) release
- Prism Central version PC2020.8
- AHV version 20190916.253
- Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) version 10.0.6
Read more about difference between LTS & STS (Short Term Support) here.
Picture borrowed from official Nutanix web site
There are a lot of new features included in this release and i know some of them are long awaited once such as:
- Open Virtual Appliance (OVA) support in pc2020.8. where you can:
- Export an AHV VM as an OVA file
- Import OVAs of VMs or virtual appliances (vApp). You can import (upload) an OVA file with the QCOW2 or VMDK disk formats from a URL or the local machine.
- Deploy OVA file as a VM.
- Download an OVA file to your local machine.
- Rename an OVA file.
- Delete an OVA file.
- Track or monitor the tasks associated with OVA operations in Tasks
- Flow
- Layer 2 Traffic Isolation for Flow Isolation Policy
- Policy Rule Description
- Services and Addresses for Policies
- Enhanced Protection for VMs using External IPAM
- RDMA Support for ESXi
- Support for ESXi Secure Boot for Host leveraging hardware UEFI and Secure Boot Enabled
In addition to the above the following new features / enhancements were also added to the new versions.
AHV
Added AHV guest OS support to include:
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- CentOS 8.2
- RHEL 7.8
- Ubuntu 19.04
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AOS
- Cross-Hypervisor Disaster Recovery (CHDR) Support for NeareSync Replication in Leap
- Inline Compression Enabled by Default for New Storage Containers
- Inline Erasure Coding-X Enabled for Objects Storage Containers
- Recycle Bin for Guest VM and vDisk Recoverability – Deleted VMs will be kept in the Recycle bin for 24h if space permits.
- Health Monitoring for Network Segmentation
- Storage Capacity Reporting Enhancements
- Timestamp Change for Nutanix Logs
- Self-Service Restore (SSR) Support for Leap
- NVMe Partial Population on NX-8170-G7 with AHV
- Hot-Swapping NVMe Drives on NX-8170-G7 with AHV
Prism Central
- Introducing the Files Manager
- Timestamp Change for Nutanix Logs
- Layer 2 Traffic Isolation for Flow Isolation Policy
- Policy Rule Description
- Services and Addresses for Policies
- Enhanced Protection for VMs using External IPAM
- UX Audit Improvements
- PC UI Scale fixes Improvements
- Enhanced Analysis Capabilities
- Search perf Enhancements
- Stats API Beta
- X-Play Enhancements
- VM Exclusion Policies Support
- Session Based Analysis Capabilities
- SQL Server Visibility
- Application Discovery Support
- Beam Integration for VM cost analysis
As usual check Nutanix Software End Of Life document on a regular basis to keep you up to date.
Useful links
- AOS 5.18 Download
- AOS 5.18 Release Notes
- Prism Central PC2020.8 Download
- Prism Central PC2020.8 Release Notes
- AHV 20190916.253 Download
- AHV 20190916.253 Release Notes
- Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) 10.0.6 Download
- Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) 10.0.6 Release Notes
- Upgrade Path
- Hypervisor json files
- Nutanix Compatibility Matrix
- Software Product Interoperability
A ton of new and good enhancements
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