AOS

What is AOS?

Acropolis Operating System (AOS) is an operating system for the Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure platform. AOS contains data services for data protection, space efficiency, scalability, automated data tiering and security. AOS comes with a built-in hypervisor called Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV).

 

The entire lifecycle of AOS

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of AOS. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.

Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product AOS (Nutanix)

 

What is the AOS release strategy?

In the Enterprise Cloud software market, to cater to different customer environment needs, there are two types of releases: * Short Term Support (STS) releases, which have new features, and also provide a regular upgrade path (3 to 6 months) OR * Long Term Support (LTS) releases, which are maintained for a longer duration (12 to 15 months) and provide primarily bug fixes for an extended period of time on a particular release family.

Facts and figures about AOS

 

 

Keywords

AOS

 

Nutanix

 

Hypervisor

 

Release

 

Version

 

Major

 

Minor

 

Patch

 

End-of-life

 

EOL

 

Support

 

End-of-support

 

EOS

 

Maintenance

 

End-of-maintenance

 

EOM

 

Security

 

Long-term support

 

LTS

 

Vulnerabilities

 

Common vulnerabilities & exposures

 

CVE

 

Security