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AOS 5.x Updates

Mike Wronski (michael.wronski@nutanix.com)

Product Marketing Manager, Virtualization / AHV
5.0 Refresher
5.0 at a Glance

Prism DSF
Self-Service Portal (AHV Core Data Path
only) Two tier compression
Network Visualization (AHV
only) ABS
ESXi Management Security Enhancements
Just-in-time Capacity Certifications
Provisioning (Prism Pro) AFS (GA)
Search Enhancements (Prism Data Protection/DR
Pro)
Metro Witness
AHV Self-service Restore
Affinity/Anti-affinity One-node backup target
ADS (a.k.a DRS)

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AHV - Virtualization
AHV: AOS 5.1 Whats New

GA of Hot-Add of Resources (CPU/RAM)

GUI only in SSP. PE is CLI only
GPU Pass-through
Not vGPU (Obelix Target)
1:1 Mapping of GPU / VM
Blocks VM Mobility
Nutanix AHV VirtIO Drivers 1.1
NDFS - Core Data Path
Mix All-Flash & Hybrid Nodes Within A Cluster

Improves same cluster mixed workloads

support (VDI, Oracle, SQL..)
Extend existing cluster support to
include ABS deployments
+ Simplifies transition to All-Flash
Smart placement of data based on disk
utilization (capacity & performance)

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Core Datapath Storage Efficiency

Post-process compression ON by default

Compression slice size reduced from 64KB to
32KB
Enables more efficient storage capacity
utilization
Enabled on new containers only
Available for Pro and Ult customers only

Dynamically Increased EC Strips

Existing ECx strips increased with newly
added nodes
Improves capacity utilization with same
protection level
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Core Datapath Storage Reporting Continued
Elevating Storage Efficiency Reporting in
PRISM
Data Reduction savings ratio from
compression, deduplication & erasure coding
Overall Efficiency consolidated metric
includes data reduction, intelligent cloning,
and thin provisioning
Effective Capacity reports effective free
capacity

Disk Rebuild Time Estimation Enhancement

Drive rebuild split into phases with
estimation for each
Rebuild time based on no. of tasks within
last 180s
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CVM Memory Size: AOS 5.1 New Minimum Size

New minimum CVM RAM size: increases by 4GB

SSP in AOS 5.0 added to memory loading
requiring 24GB minimum
New nodes will show 20GB CVM memory
One-click CVM memory upgrade within PRISM
Upgrading nodes will seek 4GB (+buffer) for
each cluster node
Maximum CVM RAM is capped at 32GB

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AFS Acropolis File Services
Whats new in AFS in 5.1

Apple Mac Clients now

supported
v10.10, v10.11, v10.12

Ability to configure
the frequency and
retention of SSR
snapshots
PRISM
Alerts: Static Threshold Based Alerts and Auto Resolve

Static Threshold Based

Alerts

Admins can monitor

infrastructure resources
including VMs by performance
KPIs defined by customer

First step to lead into

predictive monitoring of VMs
and workloads powered by X-
Fit later this year

Auto Resolve
When enabled, the alert is
automatically resolved if it
does not recur within 48
hours

Reduces noise and unwanted

clutter
One-click Centralized Cluster Upgrade

One-click AOS upgrade

for one or more
clusters directly from
Entity Explorer
Option for rolling
upgrade or
simultaneous upgrade
if multiple clusters
are selected
Simplifies management
by enabling admins to
manage AOS upgrades
for all clusters from
a single point
Business enabler for
ROBO deployments
Prism: Other 5.1 Updates

Support for 18 regions

(number, date formats) and
3 languages (English,
Simplified Chinese,
Japanese)

One-click Prism Central

deployment from Prism
Element to the same
cluster
ACS Acropolis Container Services
Acropolis Container Services (ACS)
Overview
Self- Service Containers on demand
for developers
Containers enabled via SSP
CPU, Memory and Storage quotas per
department
Benefits
Self-service without Admin intervention
Simplified deployment via SSP (No
complicated install)
Agility for developers
More workload consolidation (Virtual,
Physical and Containers)

End user self service for developers to

access resources on demand
Developers can only access their
Developer containerized resources

Gives control of resources to the end-

user/developer
Enables agility for developers
Nutanix Admin
ABS Acropolis Block Storage
New Client Support Solaris and RHEL

Oracle Linux 6, 7
CentOS 6, 7
Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012
External including Supported Client R2
bare-metal server or AIX 7.1, 7.2 on POWER
OS SLES 11, 12
Guest VMs
Solaris 11 NEW in
5.1
RHEL 6, 7, 6.8 New
in 5.1
AHV
Certified Certified for
for

NetWeaver
XenServer Support
Citrix XenServer Now Generally Available

Bringing power of web-scale design

to Citrix XenServer customers

Generally available support for Citrix XenServer 7.1

Citrix Ready for Citrix XenApp, XenDesktop, NetScaler VPX, ShareFile
Ideal for deployments needing vGPU or deploying desktops with PVS
Your Enterprise Cloud Platform