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Build for Simplicity. Ready for Scale.

This release is about polish, scale, and future-proofing. Cleaner upgrades, more efficient resource handling, tighter security, and support for modern configurations make pc.2024.2.0.9 a smart step forward.

Check detailed release notes before deploying any product updates

✨ What’s New

  • Streamlined Stability
    Critical bugs resolved to make your experience smoother and more reliable.

  • Enhanced Self-Service
    Self-Service upgraded to v3.8.1.2. Support for Python 2 eScripts has been retired — it's time to go all-in on Python 3.

  • More Secure, More Stable
    Resolved CVEs and hardened security around Marketplace activation and Epsilon services.

⚙️ Key Highlights

📈 Scalability Upgrades

  • X-Large 3-VM deployments now support:

    • 25,000 VMs

    • 300 clusters

    • 1,000 nodes

    • 75,000 virtual disks

💡 Smarter Resource Allocation

  • Dynamic Resource Boost
    Optional features like Disaster Recovery, Intelligent Operations, Flow Network Security, and Self-Service now automatically allocate vCPU and memory as needed.

🧰 Bundled Goodness

Includes updated versions of:

  • Nutanix Cluster Check: 5.0.1

  • Self-Service: 3.8.1.2

  • Nutanix Kubernetes Engine: 2.2.3

  • Network Controller: 4.0.0

🛠 Fixes You’ll Appreciate

  • ✅ Fixed high memory use from calm_marketplace_items API

  • ✅ Fixed Prism Central upgrades stalling at 95% due to Epsilon service

  • ✅ Fixed issue preventing Marketplace from enabling due to internal service failure

⚠️ What You Should Know (Limitations & Notes)

  • AOS 6.8 or 6.10 is required for new pc.2024.2 installations

  • X-Small VMs can’t use scale-out deployments

  • Hyper-V is no longer supported for Prism Central

  • TCP Wrapper deprecated as of AOS 6.8 and pc.2024.1

🧭 Known Issues (In Brief)

  • VM disk conversions (OVA ➝ VMDK) may be slow on busy clusters

  • Cross-cluster live migrations may stall if node histories aren’t cleaned

  • Recovery plan tasks might not auto-refresh — refresh manually

  • Role-based access control (RBAC) quirks: category permissions may not apply correctly

  • Prism Central web console might become unresponsive when filtering for large numbers of VMs or categories

➡️ See full list of known issues and workarounds

🔐 Security & Identity Updates

  • Continued SAML support with tested providers: Okta, ADFS, Microsoft Entra ID, and more

  • IAM supported only on on-prem deployments (ESXi & AHV)

📦 Before You Upgrade

 

 

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