Today, 2018-09-25, a new Long Term Supported (LTS) version of Nutanix Acropolis Operating System was released meaning we are now at version 5.5.6
The following products and features were also updated:
- AHV is now version AHV 20170830.170
- Metro Availability Witness is now version 5.5.6
As with AOS 5.5.5 there is no corresponding Prism Central release with AOS 5.5.6 but the following Prism Central versions can all manage AOS 5.5.6:
- 5.8.x
- 5.8
- 5.7.1.x
From Nutanix official web site:
AOS 5.5.6 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.
There are new, improved and updated features in the following areas:’
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- Acropolis File Services
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- AHV-Management
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- Alerts
- Arithmos
- Data Protection
- Infrastructure / Services
- Medusa
- Prism
- Gateway
- UI
- Pulse / Insights
- SSL Terminator
- Security
- Stargate
- Stats
- Storage
- Zookeeper
AHV 20170830.170 bring you updates in the following areas:
- Avaiability
- Security
AOS 5.5. comes together with:
- AHV 201708.30.170
- Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) 3.6.1
- Foundation 4.1.2
Useful links
- AOS 5.5.6 Download
- AOS 5.5.6 Release Notes
- AHV 20170830.170 Download
- AHV 20170830.170 Release Notes
- Metro Availability Witness 5.5.6 Download
- Metro Availability Witness 5.5.6
- Hypervisor json files
- AOS Upgrade Path
- Nutanix Compatibility Matrix
Njoy the new LTS release.