Yesterday, 2022-09-26, exactly two months after the previous AOS LTS (long term support) release shipped, the first update was made GA meaning the latest AOS LTS version is now 6.5.1. It comes with support for Windows Server 2022, Hyper-V 2022, which applies to the NX platform and specific information can be found in Nutanix KB 13282.
For those of you who read my AOS 6.5 blog post are aware of that it was not possible to upgrade from AOS version 5.20.4.x to AOS 6.5. With the release of AOS it’s now possible to upgrade from AOS 5.20.4 which is really good.
Read more about difference between LTS & STS here.
In addition to support for Hyper-V 2022 and the upgrade path improvement AOS 6.5.1 comes with improvements, as usual a pretty strong focus on security which is really good, in the following areas:
- AHV Management
- AIOps – Analysis
- API Infra
- Cluster Conversion
- Data Replication / Protection
- Foundation
- Identity and Management (IAM)
- Infrastructure / Services
- Life Cycle Manager (LCM)
- Networking
- Platform Solutions
- Prism Central
- Prism
- Gateway
- UI
- Security-AOS
- CEBA-2022:1032 CentOS 7 tzdata BugFix Update.
- CEBA-2022:4640 A grub2 bugfix update has been released for CentOS 7.
- CEBA-2022:4641 A glibc bugfix update has been released for CentOS 7.
- CEBA-2022:4647 A scap-security-guide bugfix update has been released for CentOS 7.
- CESA-2022:0063
- CESA-2022:0143
- CESA-2022:0274
- CESA-2022:0473
- CESA-2022:0620
- CESA-2022:0621
- CESA-2022:0666
- CESA-2022:1045
- CESA-2022:1066
- CESA-2022:1069
- CESA-2022:2191
- CESA-2022:2213
- CESA-2022:4642
- CVE-2022-0391
- RHEL-07-010483
- Security patch Oracle Java SE 1.7.0_321 / 1.8.0_311 / 1.11.0_13 / 1.17.0_1
- Apache Log4j
- < 2.15.0 Remote Code Execution
- 2.x < 2.16.0 DoS
- Apache Tomcat 8.5.38 < 8.5.79 vulnerability
- Security patch SaltStack Minion 3000.x < 3001.8 / 3002.x < 3002.7 / 3003.x < 3003.3 RCE
- security patch OpenJDK 7 <= 7u331 / 8 <= 8u322 / 11.0.0 <= 11.0.14 / 13.0.0 <= 13.0.10 / 15.0.0 <= 15.0.6 / 17.0.0 <= 17.0.2 / 18.0.0 <= 18.0.0
- Stargate
- Witness VM
- Zookeeper
AOS 6.5.1 comes with AHV version build 20201105.30411 and can be managed with Prism Central version pc.2022.4.0.2 & pc.2022.6. Additional software bundled with AOS 6.5.1 are:
- NCC (Nutanix Cluster Check) 4.6.1
- NGT (Nutanix Guest Tools) 2.3.1
- Foundation 5.3
As usual check Nutanix Software End Of Life document on a regular basis to keep you up to date.
Useful links
- Acropolis 6.5 Upgrade Guide
- Firewall Requirements 6.5
- AOS 6.5.1 Download
- AOS 6.5.1 Release Notes
- AHV 20201105.30411 Download
- AHV 20201105.30411 Release Notes
- Upgrade Path
- Hypervisor json files
- Nutanix Compatibility Matrix
- Software Product Interoperability
Enjoy the new version and its capabilities..
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