Tag Archive: Nutanix Operating System

Nutanix AOS Version 5.1.1.1 Released

July 19, 2017

Yesterday, 2017-07-18, Nutanix released a new version of the Acropolis Operating System (AOS) meaning the latest and greatest version available is 5.1.1.1. And yes it’s a minor release but I know at least some of my customers will benefit from the new announcements such as: Support for vSphere ESXi 6.5 and 6.5a including Dell XC …

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Nutanix AOS version 5.0 and more released

December 23, 2016

Yesterday, 2016-12-22, Nutanix released a new major version of AOS formerly known as Nutanix Operating System (NOS). This means version 5.0 also known internally as Asterix announced during .Next In Las Vegas earlier this year is available for all customers. I wrote about the announcements from .Next in Las Vegas here so i will not include all the new features …

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Nutanix AOS 4.7.3 and more updates released

November 15, 2016

Today, 2016-11-15, Nutanix released an AOS (Acropolis Operating System), formerly known as NOS (Nutanix Operating System) update meaning it is now at level 4.7.3. In addition to the AOS release there has been a few additional releases for PRISM Central 4.7.3, Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) 2.3.1 and Foundation 3.5. No new features added to AOS 4.7.3 …

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Nutanix AOS 4.7.2 and more updates released

October 4, 2016

A few days ago, 20160930, Nutanix released an update to their existing AOS (Acropolis Operating System), formerly known as NOS (Nutanix Operating System) meaning it is now at level 4.7.2. Even though this is a dot dot release it contains a few new features including e.g.: Ability to use either Data Services IP or Cluster IP …

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Nutanix AOS 4.7.1 Released

August 12, 2016

It has only been about 1.5 months since Nutanix AOS 4.7 was released which i wrote about here and yesterday (2016-08-11) a maintenance release AOS 4.7.1 was shipped. As for any other maintenance software release they are mostly about bug fixes but one major new feature is support for sharing a virtual hard disk file (VHDX format) among multiple …

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Nutanix AOS 4.7 Released

June 28, 2016

Last week during the Nutanix .Next conference a few really cool announcements were made as i described in the Nutanix .Next Summary blog post. Today, 2016-06-28, Nutanix released AOS 4.7, formerly known as Nutanix Operating System (NOS), so many of the features announced are actually be made available for all existing customer with just a click …

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Nutanix AHV, OpenStack & vRealize Automation

April 25, 2016

There has been a lot of discussions lately around vRealize Automation (vRA) and AHV, formerly known as Acropolis Hypervisor, integrations and if it possible to manage AHV based virtual machines (VMs) via vRA. As many of you already know Nutanix has released its own OpenStack solution that manages AHV objects. The OpenStack solution consists of a single …

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AOS 4.6.1 released

April 19, 2016

Today, 2016-04-19, Nutanix released AOS, formerly known as Acropolis Base Software and Nutanix Operating System (NOS), version 4.6.1. Apart from Security enhancements i just wanted to point out two things in this release: You can now apply minor ESXi patches via PRISM. This was possible using the command line before (since AOA version 4.5). All you …

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Acropolis Base Software 4.5.1 released

December 15, 2015

It has only been 2 months since Nutanix released Acropolis Base Software, formerly known as Nutanix Operating System (NOS) version 4.5 and yesterday, 2015-12-14, Nutanix released Acropolis Base Software version 4.5.1. This is a dot release but there are some cool stuff included: 1-Click Upgrade for BIOS and BMC Firmware This applies to Nutanix Clusters …

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Nutanix Acropolis Operating System Compression and Deduplication

November 19, 2015

One of the new functionalities in Acropolis Operating System, formerly known as both Acropolis Base Software and Nutanix Operating System (NOS) version 4.5, is the ability to enable both compression and deduplication on the same Nutanix Container. This blog post explains existing Nutanix nomenclature. The purpose of this blog post is to give you a …

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Acropolis Base Software 4.5 released

October 6, 2015

So today, 2015-10-06, Nutanix released Acropolis Base Software, formerly known as Nutanix Operating System (NOS) version 4.5 and there are some really awesome features included in the release. MPIO Access to iSCSI Disks (Windows Guest VMs) This means you can run e.g. a fully supported Microsoft Exchange solution on Acropolis Base Software + vSphere. I know …

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Nutanix Operating System 4.1.5 released

September 17, 2015

It has not even been two months since Nutanix Operating System (NOS) 4.1.4 was released and yesterday, 2015-09-16, Nutanix released a new NOS version, 4.1.5. This is a dot dot release but includes enhancements/news/updates in the following areas: Nutanix Cluster Check (ncc) Prism Central Version 4.1.5 released and release notes can be found here. Acropolis …

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Protected: Upgrade Nutanix Operating System via CLI

August 18, 2015

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Nutanix Operating System 4.1.4 released

July 23, 2015

It has only been approximately 1,5 months since the latest Nutanix Operating System (NOS) release and yesterday, 2015-07-22, Nutanix released yet another version of its operating system. Read more about the previous release 4.1.3 here. The new version, 4.1.4, comes with e.g. the following new features: Restore virtual machine (VM) locality after Acropolis host failure. …

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Nutanix Operating System PreUpgrade checks

July 21, 2015

I have been asked a few times what is actually included in the Nutanix Operating System (NOS) PreUpgrade check available before you conduct a NOS upgrade so i figure i write a short blog post about it. The NOS PreUpgrade check is available via the Upgrade Software link under the gear icon at the right …

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Nutanix Operating System 4.1.3 released

June 11, 2015

Updated 2015-07-23: Nutanix Operating System (NOS) version 4.1.4 has been released, read more here. ———————————————————- Yesterday, 2015-06-10, Nutanix released a new version of the Nutanix Operating System (NOS) 4.1.3 and even though it’s just a DotDot release from the previous one 4.1.2 i would like to present some of the new things available. If you …

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