Prism Central pc.7.6 introduces new ways to simplify infrastructure management, strengthen resilience, and improve day-to-day operations. This release also delivers broader security controls, expanded scalability, and a more streamlined administration experience.
Review the detailed release notes before deploying any product updates.
New
Infrastructure
- Manage storage settings across multiple clusters from a single Cluster Profile.
- Standardize VM deployments with reusable VM Profiles.
- Copy and paste text directly into the VM console, including passwords and license keys.
- Expand two-node AHV clusters to three nodes with a simpler workflow.
- Upload images and OVAs more reliably, with resumable uploads and progress tracking.
- Monitor storage health, capacity, and performance from a centralized Storage Dashboard.
- View and manage Controller VMs from a dedicated cluster management page.
- Increase concurrent user sessions based on your Prism Central deployment size.
Disaster Recovery
- Automate recovery plans for Zero Compute disaster recovery deployments in AWS and Azure.
- Manage recovery points more efficiently with age-based bulk deletion.
- Migrate from legacy Protection Domains to modern entity-centric disaster recovery using a guided migration tool.
- Gain deeper visibility into protection, replication, and storage usage with an enhanced Disaster Recovery Dashboard.
- Configure flexible recovery plans with improved IP and DNS mapping.
- Automatically expire obsolete recovery points to reduce storage consumption.
- Support larger environments with higher limits for protected VMs, volume groups, and recovery points.
Security
- Apply predefined Security Profiles to strengthen cluster security with a single selection.
- Control SSH access through Secure Access and support-restricted login workflows.
- Improve encryption reliability with automatic external key health checks and key regeneration.
- Extend Security Dashboard support to NC2 deployments on AWS and Azure.
Multi-Tenancy & Governance
- Organize workloads with the new Nutanix Projects framework for stronger isolation and resource governance.
- Create project-specific categories without naming conflicts across projects.
- Automatically migrate existing workloads into the new project model during upgrade to preserve continuity.
Improvements
- Improve Metro Availability health monitoring with deeper service health checks and earlier issue detection.
- Expand cluster fault tolerance options for greater resilience and storage efficiency.
- Add strict rack awareness to improve protection across racks and nearby data centers.
- Introduce more accurate VM memory metrics for better capacity planning.
- Support live migration from older AHV versions to newer clusters with no VM downtime.
- Improve alert management with richer policy details and built-in troubleshooting actions.
- Refresh the Recovery Points experience with a faster, more capable interface.
- Simplify navigation with an updated Admin Center and Application Switcher.
- Deliver significant accessibility improvements across the interface, including better keyboard navigation, screen reader support, and WCAG 2.2 AA alignment.
- Upgrade the Controller VM operating system to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 for improved security alignment.
External Storage
- Add Dell PowerStore support for external storage over NVMe/TCP.
- Extend Disaster Recovery support to Dell PowerStore environments, including Metro Availability, synchronous and asynchronous replication, and live VM migration.
Fixes
This release includes a broad set of stability, reliability, and usability improvements across Prism Central, including:
- Improve upgrade reliability and reduce upgrade failures.
- Resolve VM management, cloning, restore, and recovery issues.
- Improve Disaster Recovery reliability and recovery workflows.
- Strengthen role-based access control and project permissions.
- Improve authentication, SAML, Active Directory, and Identity Management reliability.
- Resolve networking, storage, and API stability issues.
- Improve Life Cycle Manager, Objects, Marketplace, and Self-Service reliability.
- Address numerous UI inconsistencies, performance issues, and service stability improvements across the platform.
Deprecations
- Deprecate the Console tab in favor of Launch Console.
- Begin the transition away from legacy Nutanix APIs (v0.8–v3). Migrate integrations to v4 APIs.
- Announce the future removal of cluster-level quotas for Projects and Self-Service.