Updates to the multipath configuration for NetApp SANs.

Early Access channel updates
Jul 24, 2025

Checksum: e0356301cde39b44f3cd5c2ab6e4cb8f24913f0672705e3359681c0e132e49b6

These updates contain fixes for the following issues:

• Sometimes, xe console doesn’t show anything.
• After reboot, the hostname changes to localhost with static IP.
• A VM might fail to shutdown when a SR has already been unplugged.
• Active Directory authentication fails when the user information contains a colon (:).
• Adding an SR-IOV network causes the creation of multiple NICs that do not work. You are also not able to add an SR-IOV network to any VM.
• A race condition when creating Observers.
• Distributed tracing spans are not exported on host evacuation.
• Fix xe host-get-cpu-features command and add pool-get-cpu-features.

These updates contain the following improvements:

• Updates to the multipath configuration for NetApp SANs.
• Move collection of memory metrics from xcp-rrdd to rrdp-squeezed.
• Improve PV driver feature handling to avoid allowing VM operations that might fail.
• Improve coalesce operations to improve stability in GFS2 and XFS.
• Improve 802.1Q header handling in Open vSwitch.
• Improve auto-completion in the xe CLI.
• Optimize communication between XAPI and xenopsd.
• Improve error messages related to Workload Balancing to include more detail.
• Performance improvement during bootstorm.