There is a big update from the Xen Orchestra team that just dropped. Version 5.111 has been released. This one’s got a mix of polish and some pretty serious enterprise featires that also benefits home lab users.
A few highlights that stood out to me:
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There’s a brand-new security advisory system (VSA) so you have one place to track vulnerabilities across the whole Vates stack. That is a big deal if you are running this in production or even just want to stay patched in the lab and I think this is pretty much a requirement these days for being serious about the enterprise
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XCP-ng 8.2 finally hit end of life, so if you are still on that you will want to move to 8.3 as soon as you can
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EasyVirt’s DC Scope and NetScope are now baked right into XO, which means you can deploy them straight from your appliance. That means you can do resource optimization and cost tracking without leaving the XO UI
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UI refinements and smoother backups are good quality of life improvements with this one
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The REST API keeps getting more love, which is good news for automation
On the enterprise side, Vates has also announced a partnership with Eviden. This partnership will mean they validate their big Bull Sequana SH server hardware with XCP-ng. This looks to have serious horsepower with up to 8 socket servers and up to 960 vCPUs. It shows they are going after the VMware exodus hard and heavy.
For home labbers, the neat part is that all these features land in the same product you can spin up at home. Better backups, better APIs, and easier integration with monitoring or optimization tools. This means a smoother lab environment. Also home labs benefit as well knowing when CVEs now drop, allowing you to be more proactive with patching.
Overall, 5.111 looks like another step forward both for the enterprise crowd, especially those dropping VMware. This gives Vates a much more serious solution for scale and compliance in the enterprise. And, for home lab folks who just want things to run reliably with modern features and use what they may be using in production.
Full details here: https://xen-orchestra.com/blog/xen-orchestra-5-111/