Nutanix Two-nodes cluster Vulnerability

Nutanix two nodes cluster ( 2 nodes cluster ) having VM vulnerability in which stale metadata may result in VMs crashing and/or becoming unavailable. Nutanix two-nodes cluster having VM vulnerability. Nutanix two-nodes cluster AOS version affected are prior to 10.5.7 and 5.11.1

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Customers are advised to avoid all maintenance activities on a two-node clusters and upgrade to AOS 5.10.7 or AOS 5.11.1 (once available), which contains the fix for this issue.Note: Two-node clusters which are running AOS 5.10.6 MUST use the manual upgrade procedure in KB-8134 which requires User VMs to be gracefully shutdown and the cluster to be stopped.

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Solution

Nutanix two-nodes vulnerability has fixed in following Nutanix AOS versions.

Information on Nutanix AOS Long Term Support (LTS) or Short Term Support (STS) releases.

Source: Nutanix Field Advisory number #70

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