Updates to the multipath configuration for NetApp SANs
XenServerCitrix
Normal channel updates
Jul 31, 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.
