Unless you haven’t seen already Nutanix released, 2018-08-20, a new Long Term Supported (LTS) version of its Acropolis Operating System meaning the latest and greatest LTS version is 5.5.5.
The following products and features were also updated:
- AHV is now version AHV 20170830.155
- Metro Availability Witness is now version 5.5.5
From Nutanix official web site:
AOS 5.5.5 is a Long Term Supported (LTS) Release that will be maintained till April 2019 and supported until Oct 2019. Please refer to KB#5505 for an explanation and how it differs from a Short Term Supported (STS) Release.
Important: There is no Prism Central release for the AOS 5.5.5 release but the following PC versions are capable to manage AOS 5.5.5 clusters:
- 5.8.x
- 5.7.1
There are new, improved and updated features in the following areas:’
- Acropolis File Services v3.0.1 can now co-exist with NearSync and metro availability on AOS clusters running a LTS release and not only STS releases 5.6.1 and onwards and 5.8 and onwards.
- AHV
- Can replicate VMs with vGPU or GPU passthrough to a remote site as part of a protection domain
- AHV- Management
- Affinity Rules
- Improved logging
- Alerts
- Data Protection
- Ergon
- Infrastructure / Services
- LifeCycle Manager (LCM) – Added support for upgrading components in multi-hypervisor environments (AHV + VMware)
- Prism
- Gateway
- UI
- Stargate
AOS 5.5. comes together with:
- AHV 201708.30.157
- Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) 3.6.0
- Foundation 3.11.3
Useful links
- AOS 5.5.5 Download
- AOS 5.5.5 Release Notes
- AHV 20170830.157 Download
- AHV 20170830.157 Release Notes
- Metro Availability Witness 5.5.5 Download
- Metro Availability Witness 5.5.5
- Hypervisor json files
Njoy the new LTS release.