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Nutanix Patching

  • 31 July 2020
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I”m trying to find out if Nutanix has a scheduled patching regimen similar to Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday. How are admins informed when there is an emergency patch? Do these include patches to Prism, to AOS and firmware patches?

 

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Best answer by Paul Ilavarasu 31 July 2020, 15:10

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Hi Moses,

When there is a new release from Nutanix(AOS,AHV) then you will be notified over the email from support-automation@nutanix.com , additionally you can find the available updates/upgrades on the Upgrade window.

Firmware is something depends upon the Hardware vendor , you can use LCM feature to view latest firmware and upgrade 

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Is there a regular patching schedule?

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Nutanix has 2 mode of releases

LTS(Long Term support) -which are maintained for a longer duration and provide primarily bug fixes for an extended period of time on a particular release family.

Release Cadence -12 to 15 months

STS(Short Term support)Short Term Support (STS) releases, which have new features, and also provide a regular upgrade path

Release Cadence - 3 to 6 months

Refer to link for more details : Long Term Support (LTS) and Short Term Support (STS) Releases (Applicable only to AOS)

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Thank you. This is very helpful