XenServer 8, succeeding Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 CU1, brings many new features.
XenServer 8 is the latest release of XenServer. It succeeds Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 Cumulative Update 1 and includes many new features.
This update contains fixes for the following issues:
- A race condition in joining a XenServer pool cluster which causes the error “GFS2 cluster state is inconsistent”.
- A typo in the error message reported when a XenServer pool can’t be authenticated when connecting a XenServer Workload Balancing appliance.
- VM.hard_shutdown gets stuck when it attempts to cancel another VM.clean_shutdown session that has already been logged out.
- Java SDK fails marshalling on unknown properties.
- Fix for rare datapath crash occurring on VM start for GFS2 and XFS storage types.
- A rare bug can cause the VM I/O handler to not start correctly.
- Crash data is not collected when using hardware with Intel Xeon Gen3 (or newer) CPUs with the BIOS configuration set to “CPU Physical Address Limit”.
This update contains the following improvements:
- Add support for the SHA1 fingerprint of a XenServer certificate.
- Update the Qlogic qla2xxx driver to v10.02.11.00-k.
- Updates to Storage Manager.