Nutanix
Release Announcement
Release
Date: 18 August 2016
Description:
We are
pleased to announce that Acropolis Version 4.7 GA was released on June 28th. Announcement details can be found here.
The
Documentation and Release Notes for this release can be found on the Nutanix
Portal.
If you
have not started to use Acropolis Version 4.7 thus far, we highly recommend
downloading the latest maintenance release of this version, Acropolis
Version 4.7.1 from https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/releases/nosDetails
Listed
below are the key features included in Version 4.7.
- Acropolis
Block Services
- Docker
Container Support
- In-Place
Hypervisor Conversion
- Support
for the Microsoft Cloud Platform System
- OpenStack
Drivers Support
Acropolis
Block Services (ABS)
ABS enables
applications not running on Nutanix to use Acropolis Distributed Storage
Fabric for back-end block storage. Whether applications are virtualized or
running on bare metal servers, they can benefit from the simplicity and
scalability that Nutanix offers.
Nutanix Acropolis can now expose its distributed storage fabric as block
storage over the iSCSI protocol. All of the storage functionality that the
platform offers—deduplication, compression, tiering, snapshots, clones,
erasure coding, etc. – are available for practically all applications,
including non-virtualized workloads.
Even in today’s world where the majority of applications are being
virtualized, certain applications will continue to run in physical server
environments. We have heard reasons ranging from the need to deprecate
existing servers, to application licensing and support, to even
organizational dynamics. Nutanix ABS is a simple and easy way for IT to
extend the scalability and performance benefits of virtualization to these
environments.
With this, high-performance virtualized workloads, virtual desktops, file
servers, and data from non-virtualized applications can reside on the same
Nutanix cluster and be managed centrally using Prism.
Docker
Container Support
The
Acropolis Distributed Storage Fabric has been extended to provide
persistent storage support for containers. The volume driver is written in
Go, it runs as a Docker volume extension, and behaves as an intermediate
container. Thus, the benefits of hyperconverged infrastructure is extended
to containers by exposing storage directly, completely bypassing the
hypervisor.
Included in the 4.7 release are:
- DSF
and Docker Machine that uses the native Docker API and tooling.
- Easy
Install and Support: The DSF Docker Volume Plug-in and the Docker
Machine Driver work right out of the box and are fully supported by
Nutanix.
In-Place
Hypervisor Conversion
Previously
tech preview, this 1-click feature available through the Prism web console
allows you to convert your cluster from using ESXi hosts to using AHV
hosts. Guest VMs are converted to the hypervisor target format, and cluster
network configurations are stored and then restored as part of the
conversion process.
Support
for the Microsoft Cloud Platform System
Nutanix
and Microsoft have jointly engineered a hybrid cloud solution that brings
together Microsoft’s datacenter technologies, including Hyper-V, System
Center, and Windows Azure Pack, to Nutanix as a single integrated product
that is factory configured based on best practices from both Microsoft and
Nutanix. You can learn more about this product here.
OpenStack
Drivers Support
For customers looking to deploy an OpenStack-based solution
and also benefit from the simplified integrated experience that Nutanix
provides, the OpenStack package for AHV is now available for download. This
includes storage, virtualization, network, and image management drivers.
You can read more about it here.
If you
have questions, please open a case with Nutanix Support at http://portal.nutanix.com, or by
calling Support at the phone numbers on the website http://www.nutanix.com/support
Thank you
for being a Nutanix customer.
Nutanix Worldwide Support
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