It has been a while since I added a post here.Everytime I like to write something I feel like I need to use that time on learning something new instead of typing a blog and posting it here.
Anyway , Nutanix released a new update for its AOS, AHV and Prism Central recently. I will try to explore some of these features in this post.

Just like version 6.8 and later this AOS bundle does not include the AHV, so If you have a plan to create a cluster or expand the cluster, don’t forget to have the AHV setup File downloaded and available with you.

– Cloud KMS Support :Use the Cloud KMS option to securely manage encryption keys using your cloud provider’s KMS using Prism Central
– Optionally Disable CPU Hot plug via aCLI.: on earlier versions CPU hot plug was enabled by default on all VMs.
-One Node and One Disk (1N&1D) Cluster Fault Tolerance:Cluster fault tolerance has enhanced (if you ask me) .with this new feature, you will have option to select node / disk fault Tolerance in the clust

one of a few limitation it currently has, you will not be able to change the cluster from 1N/1D to 1N&1D after cluster is setup.
you need to select it during cluster creation.
– Support for storage policy for volume groups
– Support for Skylake server on ESXi 8.0 Update 3 ( to enable one-click upgrade)
– WSL2 Intra-Cluster Live Migration Support:VMs with Windows subsystem for linux enabled can be live migrated.
– Optionally Disable the SCSI Controller on VMs: you will have option to disable SCSI controllers on VM (via aCLI)
– Centralized Password Management for AHV System Accounts: it gives you to ability to check the status of the cluster passwords (root,nutanix,admin) and change them in the bulk
– Increased Maximum Supported Memory on AHV Hosts:the new limit is 8 TB per host
– Multicloud Snapshot Technology (MST) DR with Zero Compute Deployment:you can replicate snapshots to S3 buckets or Nutanix Objects directly from on-premises clusters ( obviously the TRO will be longer)
– NVMe Software Serviceability
– Metro Availability with Nutanix Witness Service out of the Prism Central Instance: you can setup the witness VM on a seprate fault domain
– Support for the Intel Saphhire Rapids CPU instructions
– Semantic Versioning format for AHV:the name of new AHV updates, will be following 10.0.
– PCIe Passthrough for Guest VMs: you will have option to assign a PCIe to a VM
– Change Interface Ring Buffer Size on AHV
– Support of Repair Host Boot Disk and SSD Repair functionality in Prism Element for Compute-Only and Storage-Only nodesFEA
– Support for boot device order configuration from aCLI
– Support for NVIDIA A2 Tensor Core GPU card
– Support for NVIDIA H100 NVL GPU card
– VM-VM Anti-Affinity Policies in Prism Central:you can define/apply VM-VM anti-affinity via tag and policy in the PC.you can still do the same via CLI in PE but it seems it will be removed there in near future
– Multiple Cluster Configuration Through Prism Central:you can create profile in PC and apply the same configuration to new clusters (DNS,NTP,syslog,SMTP,etc)
– Support for Flow Network Security Next-Gen with vLAN Policy Scope in Nutanix Disaster Recovery
– Revamped Tasks Dashboard:the task Dashboard display has changed.
– Node Maintenance Mode Management from Prism Central
– Protection and Recovery Scale Improvements for Nutanix Disaster Recovery
– Registration Dependency Removed Between Prism Central and the Hosting Cluster for Services Enablement:a cluster can host a PC , without registering to it.
– Microservices Infrastructure Cluster Upgrade

more information can be found in the link but you will need to login to the portal first.
simply select the production (AOS, AHV,Prism) and select the version release notes.

Ahmad Jamali