Please review the release notes<\/a> before deployment for all products<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/section> AOS integrates storage, compute and networking resources into a scalable, secure, resilient and easy-to-use software-defined infrastructure.<\/p> The release resolves the following critical issue:<\/p> Prism Gateway<\/strong><\/p> The release resolves the following critical issues:<\/p> Cluster Conversion<\/strong><\/p> Data Replication \/ Protection<\/strong><\/p> Flow<\/strong><\/p> MSP is a managed platform based on Kubernetes for managing containerized services running on PC. The lifecycle of MSP is controlled by a service running on Prism Central called MSP Controller. MSP supports various containerized services like IAMv2, ANC and Objects and more services will be on-boarded in future. 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We will be highlighting a couple of features in this article but for more detailed information check the release notes<\/a>.<\/span><\/p> If you\u2019re considering deploying Karbon Kubernetes clusters on Nutanix HCI, then take Karbon for a full test drive! The Nutanix Test Drive<\/span><\/a> program puts you in the driver\u2019s seat of Karbon on a live cluster, letting you experience how smooth and simple Karbon makes Kubernetes cluster deployment, storage configuration, and upgrades.<\/p> Sign up<\/span><\/a> to take a spin!<\/p>","featuredImage":"https:\/\/uploads-us-west-2.insided.com\/nutanix-us\/attachment\/55934870-a0bb-433d-9746-bce789f4a338_thumb.png","publicLabel":"News","categoryId":"","categoryName":"","tags":["Karbon","Kubernetes","k8s"],"moderatorTags":[],"moderationLabel":"","replyCount":1,"likes":2,"votes":0,"views":201,"voteSet":[],"likeSet":["107861","115418"],"trashed":false,"sticky":false,"bestAnswer":false,"author":{"id":"7898","username":"aluciani","avatar":"https:\/\/uploads-us-west-2.insided.com\/nutanix-us\/icon\/90x90\/238iAAA7BD63BD938363.jpg"},"lastContributor":{"id":"107861","username":"jonas.hogman","avatar":"https:\/\/uploads-us-west-2.insided.com\/nutanix-us\/icon\/200x200\/f9fed663-ead4-47f7-b35a-ee0c9909395d.png"},"createdAt":"2021-09-29T15:46:42+00:00","lastActivityAt":"2021-09-29T20:30:21+00:00","status":"published","ideaStatus":{"name":"","textColor":"","backgroundColor":""},"productAreas":["6"],"lastPostId":4,"publishedAt":"2021-09-29T15:46:42+00:00","hasPinnedReply":false,"changedIdeationStatusAt":"2021-09-29T15:46:42+00:00","moderationStatus":{"repliedSinceLastModeration":0,"isModerated":true},"assignedModerator":"","publicTags":["Karbon","Kubernetes","k8s"],"lastEditedBy":"7898","lastEditedAt":"2021-09-29T15:46:42+00:00","hasBestAnswer":false},{"contentType":"productUpdate","id":"17","publicId":"39683","title":"AOS 5.15.6 LTS Released","content":" AOS integrates storage, compute and networking resources into a scalable, secure, resilient and easy-to-use software-defined infrastructure.<\/p> Please review the release notes<\/a> before deployment<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section> AHV-Management<\/strong><\/p> Data Protection<\/strong><\/p> Infrastructure \/ Services<\/strong><\/p> Nutanix Guest Tools<\/strong><\/p> Prism UI<\/strong><\/p> Be sure to share your upgrade experience in the community forums<\/a>.<\/p> Register for our annual .NEXT user conference<\/a> happening September 20-23, 2021 online. 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To participate in this technical review, contact your Nutanix account team to enable Flow networking. Refer to the Support FAQs for more details on support during technical preview.<\/p> Note: Do not use technical preview features in a production environment.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section> Prism Central now provides the NAT option under the External Connectivity option. You can enable or disable Network Access Translation (NAT) during creation or update of Subnets. This option allows you to connect VPCs to external networks without NAT by deselecting (thus, disabling) the NAT option.<\/p> Secondary IP Addresses Support for Flow Networking <\/strong><\/p> This feature is an enhancement to Flow networking which is currently in technical preview. To participate in this technical review, contact your Nutanix account team to enable Flow networking. Refer to the Support FAQs for more details on support during technical preview.<\/p> vCenter Capacity Runway<\/strong><\/p> 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.<\/p> PC UI using v3 APIs <\/strong><\/p> Prism Central web console uses the v3 APIs for the VM create and VM update actions. The existing VM create and VM update forms are overhauled for admin and non-admin users. This feature extends the VM clone functionality to non-admin users while optionally overriding select VM settings configured during VM creation. This feature also allows the cluster admin to enable the Flash Mode setting for VMs and VM disks during the VM Update action.<\/p> Upload Images from a VM Disk to Clusters in Prism Central <\/strong><\/p> This feature extends the support to upload images from Prism Central to registered AHV clusters through a VM disk. This feature allows you to clone an existing VM disk to add it to the image list. You can browse and choose a powered-off source VM on a cluster and then select an attached disk corresponding to this source VM.<\/p> Reporting Scalability in Prism Central <\/strong><\/p> This feature enhances the reporting scalability for entities in Prism Central for PDF and CSV output formats. Prism Central allows you generation of reports in PDF format for 2000 entities and generation of reports in CSV format for 25000 entities.<\/p> Storage Management Through Prism Central <\/strong><\/p> Prism Central now includes a dashboard where you can view both summary and detailed information about volume groups across the registered clusters. In addition, you can now create and modify volume groups for any registered cluster directly from Prism Central.<\/p> Expanded Microservices Infrastructure Support <\/strong><\/p> Microservices Infrastructure support in Prism Central is extended to ESXi clusters (as well as AHV clusters). For more information, see \"Enabling Microservices Infrastructure\" in the Prism Central Guide.<\/p> DR Dashboard: Monitoring and Reporting <\/strong><\/p> You can now use a dashboard to monitor the operational readiness of disaster recovery (DR) deployments with Leap. The dashboard views granular information on all replication and recovery operations and enables you to create detailed reports on the health of your deployments.<\/p> Enhanced NearSync Replication Schedules for VStore Protection <\/strong><\/p> You can now transition into NearSync replication schedules faster because the underlying engine driving the NearSync operation is enhanced to work autonomously. The slider enables you to recover the protected VStore protection domains with an RPO as low as 20 seconds to at most two recovery sites<\/p> Be sure to share your upgrade experience in the community forums<\/a>.<\/p> Register for our annual .NEXT user conference<\/a> happening September 20-23, 2021 online. 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To help maintain cluster health and take advantage of the latest NCC technology, Nutanix recommends that you keep your NCC version current. You can upgrade NCC through the web console, Life Cycle Manager, or command line.<\/p> This version is not supported on clusters running AOS versions prior to 5.10 or any AOS Family for IBM CS Series platforms. NCC 3.10.1 and below is supported on clusters running AOS versions prior to 5.10. See Knowledge Base article 7796 on the Nutanix Support<\/a> portal.<\/p> Nutanix Cluster Checks help you identify configurations that Nutanix has qualified and recommends.<\/p> Clusters running AOS or Prism Central 5.10 minimum version.<\/p>\t<\/li>\t AHV \/ Hyper-V 2016, and 2019 \/ ESXi<\/p>\t<\/li>\t All Nutanix NX and SX Series models<\/p>\t<\/li>\t Cisco UCS B-Series \/ C-Series<\/p>\t<\/li>\t Dell EMC XC Series hyperconverged appliances<\/p>\t<\/li>\t Dell PowerEdge<\/p>\t<\/li>\t Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE) ProLiant servers<\/p>\t<\/li>\t Klas Voyager 2<\/p>\t<\/li>\t Lenovo Converged HX Series<\/p>\t<\/li>\t Lenovo \/ Dell \/ Nutanix G6 Intel Skylake CPU-based platforms<\/p>\t<\/li>\t Nutanix G7 Intel CPU-based platforms<\/p>\t<\/li><\/ul> Here are some new checks and alerts in this release:<\/p> Check out the release notes<\/a> to learn more.<\/p> Be sure to share your upgrade experience in the community forums<\/a>.<\/p> Register for our annual .NEXT user conference<\/a> happening September 20-23, 2021 online. 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Additionally, has other workload acceleration and enterprise grade features, such as resiliency improvements to gain insights and control over the self-healing process and ability to reserve capacity.<\/p> Please review the release notes before deploying AOS 6.0<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section> Here is a sample of the latest features:<\/p> Please take a moment to read the release notes<\/a><\/p> Be sure to share your upgrade experience in the community forums<\/a>.<\/p> Register for our annual .NEXT user conference<\/a> happening September 20-23, 2021 online. 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AOS (LTS) 5.20.2.1 <\/span><\/h3>
Microservices Platform (MSP) 2.3.4<\/span><\/h3>
Life Cycle Manager Version 2.4.3.3<\/span><\/h3>
Sign up for a Karbon Test Drive<\/h2>
Sample of Resolved Issues | AOS 5.15.6<\/h3>
New and Updated Features | Prism<\/h3>
Disaster Recovery<\/h3>
Core Data Path<\/h3>
AHV<\/h3>