VM anti-affinity new feature and Bug fixes

Oct 02, 2024 Update

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Important: These updates introduce a new restriction to Trial Edition. You can now use XenServer fora 90-day trial period after applying this update. After the 90-day trial period expires, no VMs will start on your Trial Edition hosts and pools.

New features:

• VM anti-affinity: You can now assign your VMs to anti-affinity placement groups that are started on hosts in your pool according to the following anti-affinity placement rules:

1- No single host is the only place a VM of a particular group is running.
2- The count of VMs within the group for each host is as even as possible.
When a VM in one of these groups is started or evacuated from a host, XenServer chooses to place the VM on a host that enables the VM group to follow these rules as closely as possible.

• Preview support for a new guest template: Ubuntu Noble Numbat 24.04 (preview).

Bug Fixes:

• For some configurations of iSCSI SAN the expected number of iSCSI sessions were not created, reducing the effectiveness of multipath.
• The fan on Lenovo AMD systems is always at full speed and DIMM temperatures are not reported correctly by the BMC.
• A rare boot failure.
• A race condition that can block MCS base image updates.

improvements:

• The following guests templates are now no longer in preview and are now fully supported: Rocky Linux 9, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, CentOS Stream 9, Debian Bookworm 12
• Auto-completion in the xe CLI has been improved.
• Update driver qla2xxx to v10.02.12.01-k