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Operator Nexus Release Version 2404.2

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Release date: April 29, 2024

Release summary

Operator Nexus 2404.2 includes NC3.10 Management updates and an NC3.8.7 runtime patch.

Release highlights

Resiliency enhancements

  • Bare Metal Machine (BMM)/BMC KeySets - Enhanced handling of Entra disconnected state.

  • Prevents simultaneous disruptive BMM actions against Kubernetes Control Plane nodes.

  • Prevents user from adding or deleting a hybrid-compute machine extension on the Cluster MRG.

  • Prevents user from creating and deleting arc-connected clusters and the arc-connected machine from Nexus Kubernetes Service (NKS) MRG.

Security enhancements

  • Credential rotation status information on the Bare-metal Machine (BMC or Console User) and Storage Appliance (Storage Admin) resources.

  • Harden Network Fabric Controller (NFC) Infrastructure Proxy to allow outbound connections to known services.

  • HTTP/2 enhancements.

  • Remove Key Vault from Cluster Manager MRG.

Observability enhancements

  • (Preview) Appropriate status reflected for Rack Pause scenarios.

  • More metrics support: Calico data-plane failures, disk latency, etcd, hypervisor memory usage, pageswap, pod restart, NTP.

  • Enable users to create alert rules that track disconnection metrics for connectivity of clusters to the Cluster Manager.

  • Enable storage appliance logs.

Other updates

  • Enable high-availability for NFS Storage.

  • Support Purity 6.5.4.

  • PURE hardware upgrade from R3 to R4.

  • Updated OS image as a 3.8.7 runtime patch release to remediate new Common Vulnerabilities Exposures (CVEs).

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