The long-anticipated release of Nutanix Acropolis 5.11 is ready for download from Nutanix portal.
What’s new in AOS 5.11
- Added ESXi Support for Nutanix Guest Tools
VMware ESXi support to install and upgrade NGT on multiple VMs simultaneously in the Prism Central. - Storage Quality of Service (QoS) to Set Throttle Limits on a VM
Storage QoS provides administrators granular control to manage the performance of virtual machines and ensure that the system delivers consistent performance for all workloads. You can use a controllable knob to limit the IOPS that the storage layer would serve for individual virtual machines. IOPS is the number of requests the storage layer can serve in a second. You can set throttle limits on a VM to prevent noisy VMs from over-utilizing the system resources.
- Support for Up to 120 TiB Per Node
AOS 5.11 with Foundation 4.4 and later now supports up to 120 Tebibytes (TiB) of storage per node.
- SRM Support for NearSync
You can now create a NearSync schedule on a protection domain for SRA replication. The NearSync schedule can coexist with an asynchronous schedule. - Network Segmentation for Services
You can now secure traffic associated with a service by confining its traffic to a separate vNIC on the Controller VM and using a dedicated virtual network that has its own physical NICs. This type of segmentation offers true physical separation for service-specific traffic.
What’s new in Prism Central 5.11
- storage Quality of Service (QoS) to Set Throttle Limits on a VM
- Codeless Task Automation (X-Play)
You can automate routine administrative tasks through Prism Central by using the X-Play feature. X-Play is an easy to use automation tool that helps you to automate routine administrative tasks and auto-remediate issues that occur in your system. You can achieve this automation by creating Playbooks.- X-Play requires a Prism Pro license.
- X-Play requires only Prism Central to be on 5.11, Prism Element upgrade to 5.11 is not required.
- Syslog Monitoring
You can configure syslog monitoring to forward system logs (API Audit, Audit, and Flow logs) of the registered clusters to an external syslog server. - Export and Import Security Policy
Prism Central allows you to export and import security policies.
What’s new in Nutanix AHV – 2017083-228
- Support to Update the br0 Uplink Configuration
The default NIC-teaming policy of the bond br0-up of the default bridge br0 in your AHV cluster is Active-Backup. You can now change the NIC-teaming policy of br0-up to Active-Active, Active-Active with MAC pinning, or retain the default Active-Backup . By default, br0-up aggregates all the physical interfaces available on the node. You can now modify this default NIC configuration by selecting the interfaces that must belong to br0-up. You can either choose to have only 10G interfaces, only 1G interfaces, or retain the default setting, that is all the available interfaces aggregated into br0-up.
- Support for Compute-Only Nodes on AHV ClustersFEAT-5761
A compute-only (CO) node allows you to seamlessly and efficiently expand the computing capacity (CPU and memory) of your AHV cluster.
- UEFI Support for VMs on AHV and Hyper-V clusters FEAT-6699
Nutanix fully supports the booting of VMs with UEFI firmware in an AHV cluster. Nutanix also provides limited support for VMs migrated from Hyper-V cluster. You can create or update VMs with UEFI firmware by using the aCLI commands, the Prism web console, or the Prism Central UI.
