Good day friends! I don’t typically write about software releases, however this is a big one for Nutanix. There are some great features that customers will be able to take advantage of. Lets go through a few of them!
AOS
- Network Microsegmentation goes GA for AHV!
- Managed through Prism
- Stateful distributed firewall – app isolation
- Nothing additional to install
- 80TB Nodes now available
- Erasure Coding update
- Lower Garbage collection and background jobs
- Volume Group (VG) vDisk Load Balancing meaning splitting up the vDisks in same VG on multiple CVMs. Will give you better performance.
- Prism Central Scale-Out
- multiple instances of PC forming a resilient and distributed control plane.
- Two-node Cluster
AFS – This is what I’m most excited about!
- Support for NFS v4 in addition to SMBv2 and 2.1
- A single fileserver will support both SMB and NFS exports (AFS can now be used for NON-Windows use cases)
- Incremental File backup support
- Change File Tracker based backups
- HUGE benefit – no fileserver scans needed for incremental backups, super efficient
- Change File Tracker based backups
- File Activity Monitoring
- Use external syslog server
- This opens AFS up to vendors who conduct file auditing. Varonis maybe?
- AFS Cluster Network Change
- Share and Export Statistics Now Available
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