Support Policies for RHEL High Availability Clusters - Nutanix AHV Virtual Machines and Nutanix HCI Servers as Cluster Members
Contents
Overview
Applicable Environments
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) with the High Availability Add-On
- Using Nutanix AHV to provide VMs that may serve as High Availability cluster members
- Using Nutanix HCI to provide host servers for VM hypervisor that may serve as High Availability cluster members
Recommended Prior Reading
Useful References and Guides
Introduction
This guide offers Red Hat's policies, requirements, and limitations applicable to the use of Nutanix AHV virtual machines as members of a RHEL High Availability cluster. Users of RHEL High Availability software components should adhere to these policies by installing only on the approved platforms in order to be eligible to receive assistance from Red Hat Support with the appropriate support subscriptions.
Policies
Consider general conditions for support of RHEL High Availability in virtualization environments
Nutanix AHV VMs as RHEL High Availability members: Red Hat supports RHEL High Availability deployments consisting of members that are virtual machines running on Nutanix AHV platforms on the following versions. There is a new dedicated fence-agent for Nutanix AHV platforms cluster nodes that is called: fence_nutanix_ahv.
- RHEL 8
- RHEL 8.6.z or later with the errata RHSA-2026:1792 for RHEL 8.6.z that provides the following packages(s):
fence-agents-nutanix-ahv-4.2.1-89.el8_6.20. - RHEL 8.8.z or later with the errata RHSA-2026:1791 for RHEL 8.8.z that provides the following packages(s):
fence-agents-nutanix-ahv-4.2.1-112.el8_8.15. - RHEL 8.10.z or later with the errata RHBA-2025:23367 for RHEL 8.10.z that provides the following package(s):
fence-agents-nutanix-ahv-4.2.1-129.el8_10.16.
- RHEL 8.6.z or later with the errata RHSA-2026:1792 for RHEL 8.6.z that provides the following packages(s):
- RHEL 9
- RHEL 9.0.z or later with the errata RHBA-2026:0476 for RHEL 9.0.z that provides the following packages(s):
fence-agents-nutanix-ahv-4.10.0-20.el9_0.25. - RHEL 9.2.z or later with the errata RHSA-2026:1735 for RHEL 9.2.z that provides the following packages(s):
fence-agents-nutanix-ahv-4.10.0-43.el9_2.18. - RHEL 9.4.z or later with the errata RHSA-2026:1717 for RHEL 9.4.z that provides the following packages(s):
fence-agents-nutanix-ahv-4.10.0-62.el9_4.21.. - RHEL 9.6.z or later with the errata RHSA-2026:1706 for RHEL 9.6.z that provides the following packages(s):
fence-agents-nutanix-ahv-4.10.0-86.el9_6.14. - RHEL 9.7 or later with the errata RHBA-2025:20655 for RHEL 9.7 that provides the following package(s):
fence-agents-nutanix-ahv-4.10.0-98.el9. - For more information then see: 4.11. High availability and clusters | 9.7 Release Notes
- RHEL 9.0.z or later with the errata RHBA-2026:0476 for RHEL 9.0.z that provides the following packages(s):
- RHEL 10
- RHEL 10.0.z or later with the errata RHBA-2026:0442 for RHEL 10.0.z that provides the following package(s):
fence-agents-nutanix-ahv-4.16.0-5.el10_0.7. - RHEL 10.1.z or later with the errata RHBA-2025:23292 for RHEL 10.1.z that provides the following package(s):
fence-agents-nutanix-ahv-4.16.0-13.el10_1.1. - For more information then see: 6.10. High availability and clusters | 10.1 Release Notes
- RHEL 10.0.z or later with the errata RHBA-2026:0442 for RHEL 10.0.z that provides the following package(s):
Supported Nutanix API versions: Only Nutanix API v4.0 is supported. The fence-agent fence_nutanix_ahv only supports Nutanix API v4.0. For more information about Nutanix API then see: Content from www.nutanix.dev is not included.Nutanix API Reference v4.