Today, 2024-10-08, Nutanix released a new version long term support version (LTS) AOS meaning the latest version is 6.10. As you know a LTS release is built on features that have been available via short term releases (STS) for some time meaning they have been out in the filed and used for some time. Read more about LTS, eSTS & STS here.
When it comes to the What’s New questions the answer is either “a lot” or “nothing” but below i’ve got a list of features that have been available via STS releases and which are now included in the 6.19 LTS release.
- Support for Ice Lake Processors
- Switch Port Analyzer or Traffic Mirroring Enhancements
- Ability to Rename an AHV Host Through Prism Central
- IP Set-based Firewall
- Disk Health Monitor
- Cross-vDisk Strips Inline Erasure Coding
- IP-less Communication Between NGT and CVM
- Native Encryption of Replication Traffic
- Autonomous NearSync
- Service-level Network Traffic Segmentation in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
- Disaster Recovery of Volume Groups and Consistency Groups
- Node Maintenance Mode for ESXi Nodes
- RDMA Pass-through Mechanism
- Zero Touch RDMA (ZTR) Support
- Securing AHV VMs with Virtual Trusted Platform Module (vTPM)
- Support for Cluster Resiliency Preference
- Unregister a Cluster from a Disconnected Prism Central
- AOS Kernel Migrated to Upstream, Kernel.org Provided, Long Term Support (LTS) Kernel Branch
- Intelligent Distributed Disk Scrubbing
- Enabled Server Side Session Management in Mercury
- Improved Garbage Collection
- Predefined MAC Address Prefix
- Traffic Mirroring Session
- Support for AMD CPUs for Credential Guard and Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2)
- Manage Bulk Operations for NGT
- Support for iSCSI Extensions for RDMA (iSER)
- Disaster Recovery Support for AHV vTPM Guest VMs
- Affinity Policies Framework Enhancements
- Support for NVMe + HDD configuratio
- Support for All 24 NVMe Drives in an All-Flash HCI Node
- Multichannel Support for AHV Live Migration Performance
- Storage Policies to Scale VG Management
- Network Segmentation Support for NSX-T Segments
- Optimized Database Solution
- Key Backup Enhancement
- Support for 24-Hour RPO on Clusters with Per-Node Capacity Up to 216 TiB
- Enhancement to Cluster Resiliency Preference Setting
- Support of NVIDIA Ada Lovelace L4 GPU card for AHV
- Adaptive CPU Management during Live Migration
- Live Migration Support for Credential Guard VMs
- Advanced Processor Compatibility in AHV
- AHV Metro Availability Support for Volume Groups
- Automatic Cluster Selection for VM Placement
- Autonomous Extent Store (AES) Optimized Metadata
- Nearsync Replication Support for Volume Group and Consistency Group
- Advanced Processor Compatibility in AHV
- ESXi Metro Availability File Limit Enhancements
- ESXi Support for ESXi Compute-only Nodes
- ESXi 8.0 Update 1 Support
- ESXi 8.0 Update 2 Support
- Disaster Recovery Support for ESXi-encrypted VMs
- Smart Rebuild as Default Setting for Cluster Resiliency Preference
- Disaster Recovery Support for vTPM-enabled VMs on Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)
- Virtual RAID on Card (VROC) Software RAID for M.2 NVMe Hypervisor Boot Drive
- HPE Hybrid Dense Node Support
- NVMe Software Serviceability
- Virtual Private Cloud Support for Synchronous Replication and On-demand CCLM
- Prism Central Backup and Restore
- Storage Stats and Usage Reporting Improvements
- SSD-LowEndurance Tier for Nutanix Files and Nutanix Objects
- Eliminate Default Passwords during Cluster Creation
- LCM Firmware Upgrade and NCC Check Support for Compute-Only Nodes
- Decoupled State Support for Entities Protected with Synchronous Replication Schedule
- Support Traffic Mirroring to Destination on Remote Host
- Emerald Rapids CPU Support
- All-Flash HCI Node with 24HR RPO Supports 307 TB (NVMe only)
AHV will no longer be bundled with AOS so the software included in this AOS release are:
- AOS 6.10
- Foundation 5.6.1
- Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT) 4.1.1
- Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) 5.0.1.1
- Life Cycle Manager (LCM) 3.0
AHV latest release 9.1.2 can be downloaded here
As usual check Nutanix Software End Of Life document on a regular basis to keep you up to date.
Useful links
- AOS 6.10 Download
- AOS 6.10 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