Nutanix Acropolis 5.11 is ready for download

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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-ActiveActive-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.


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Artur Krzywdzinski

Artur is Consulting Architect at Nutanix. He has been using, designing and deploying VMware based solutions since 2005 and Microsoft since 2012. He specialize in designing and implementing private and hybrid cloud solution based on VMware and Microsoft software stacks, datacenter migrations and transformation, disaster avoidance. Artur holds VMware Certified Design Expert certification (VCDX #077).

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