Month: March 2025

Nutanix AOS 7.0.1, AHV 10.0.1 and PC 2024.3.1 Releases

Nutanix released new minor versions of AOS, AHV, and PC with a few new features and many resolved issues in AOS, AHV, and Prism Central.

If you’re waiting for the first patch to upgrade your clusters to AOS 7 and PC 2024.3, make sure to read the release notes, resolved issues, and known issues. Maybe it’s time to upgrade.

For AOS 7.0.1 and AHV 10.0.1, there is a new feature:
AMD Turin Processor Support – Starting with AOS 7.0.1, AOS supports nodes based on the AMD Turin processor, such as Nutanix G10 platforms.
Currently, Nutanix has qualified the AMD Turin processor for Lenovo HX platforms.

For Prism Central 2024.3.1:
There are few features related to NCM, but I want to highlight a new and highly anticipated feature called Power Monitor – Starting with pc.2024.3.1, you can gain insights into the power consumption of your IT infrastructure by enabling the Power Monitor feature. Power Monitor collects real-time power usage data at the node and cluster levels and displays this historical data as line charts on the Prism Central dashboard.

You can read more on how Prowe Usage works in the documentation.

All releases have a lot of resolved issues, and you can check them here (requiring authentication):
Resolved Issues – AOS 7.0.1;
Resolved Issues – AHV 10.0.1;
Resolved Issues – pc.2024.3.1.

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What’s new at Nutanix University? New certification NCP-CN is Now Available for Scheduling

Nutanix Certified Professional – Cloud Native (NCP-CN) 6.10 is ready to leave the beta state and exam is now open for scheduling with exam appointments starting on Tuesday, April 22

For those, who do not know, what NCP-CN is, it is the certification that measures your ability to deploy, configure, optimize, and perform administrative tasks on a Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP).

The best way to start preparing is to check the blueprint guide. You can find the blueprint guide here.

To schedule the exam, use the My Certification section on Nutanix University. Next, find the Nutanix Certified Professional – Cloud Native 6.10 certification and click schedule. You will be forwarded to the PSI page, where you can select a suitable date and time.

In addition, I highly recommend checking the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform Administration (NKAP) free online course to get the knowledge on the NKP solution. Also, if you have an opportunity, I recommend visiting this course live, because it includes a lot of hands-on labs, and it really can boost your knowledge on NKP, especially if you have a poor practice experience.

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Veeam Backup & Replication 12.3.1 Release

Veeam released the new version of Backup and Replication software 12.3.1.1139, which includes new features and addresses major security vulnerabilities.

First is CVE-2025-23120 with the critical severity level (9.9 score) – A vulnerability allowing remote code execution (RCE) by authenticated domain users.

This vulnerability only affects domain-joined backup servers, which is against best practices, by the way.

This issue affects Veeam Backup & Replication 12.3.0.310 and all earlier v12 builds. Consider updating ASAP.

Now let’s move to the new features and fixes. I will not show everything, because the list is too big, but I will point out a few I really love.

Platform support:

VMware vSphere 9.0 readiness. The official support will be confirmed with the full testing of the GA build when it becomes available. This means that after vSphere 9.0 is out, it is better to wait for Veeam to officially support this release before upgrading the vSphere environment.

Nutanix AHV – Removed the experimental support designation for malware detection, guest file indexing, and application-aware processing, except database log file shipping, which will still be considered experimental.

Proxmox VE – Updated ProxmoxVE plug-in enables the usage of non-root users to register Proxmox, support for Open vSwitch (OVS) networking, Object Storage API (SOSAPI), Nested Pools for backup jobs scope, and brings further backup performance improvements.

Enhancements:

One I really love for vSphere is – Instant VM Recovery engine improvements deliver a 5x increased number of simultaneous instant VM recoveries: up to 1000 VMs per backup server and up to 200 VMs per vPowerNFS server.

TLS connection support for the PostgreSQL configuration database has been added for improved security when hosting the database on an external server.

New ISO-based update distribution reduces downtime by accelerating update installation and eliminates the additional disk space requirement on the backup server, which was previously needed for unpacking the update before its installation.

New REST API capabilities include changing existing password records, rescanning all backup repository types, downloading metadata for Unstructured Data backups, and performing backup deletion.

New PowerShell capabilities include connection to Veeam Vaults, querying, and restoring protected Microsoft Entra ID conditional access policies.

There are more than 40 additional features, enhancements, and resolved issues, make sure you read the corresponding KB.

In addition, consider updating ASAP if CVE-2025-23120 addresses your installation.

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