What’s new in Nutanix Prism Central 2021.5

A few weeks back Nutanix release Prism Central 2021.05. What is the Prism Central? Prism Central is your central management plane to manage Nutanix clusters. Nutanix Leap, Nutanix Flow, Nutanix Karbon, are among many services managed and controlled by Prism Central.

What’s new in Prism Central 2021.5

• vCenter Capacity Runway
  This feature extends the Capacity Runway features to vCenter registered Non-Nutanix clusters. This feature allows you to monitor the current and historical usage information and utilize the resource planning tools to analyze current and potential resource requirements.
• Upload Images from a VM Disk to Clusters in Prism Central
  You can clone the existing VM vdisk and upload it to the image repository
• Reporting enhancements
  Generate CSV report up to 25000 entities
• Storage Management Through Prism Central
  Manage Volume Groups from Prism Central
  

• DR Dashboards called Protection Summary
  With the new DR dashboard, you can have all information about Disaster Recovery in one pane and easily accessible. Find your DR topology of your protected application(s).
  • Assess working health of the DR setup
  • Monitor the status of the replication and recovery events
  • View DR events violating the set configuration
  • Generate DR reports
    

• Enhanced NearSync Replication Schedules for VStore Protection
  Transitioning from Async replication to NearSync is more efficient. The replication engine has been enhanced to work autonomously.

Useful links:

• Prism Central 2021.5 Release notes
• Prism Central scaleout Deployment