Support Policies for RHEL High Availability Clusters - Nutanix AHV Virtual Machines and Nutanix HCI Servers as Cluster Members

Contents

• Overview
  • Applicable Environments
  • Recommended Prior Reading
  • Useful References and Guides
  • Introduction
• Policies

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

• General conditions with virtualized cluster members

Useful References and Guides

• Support Policies for RHEL High Availability Clusters

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

• See: General conditions with virtualized cluster members

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.

• RHEL 8
  • RHEL 8.6.z or later with the errata RHSA-2026:1792for 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-2026:1791for 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 9
  • RHEL 9.0.z or later with the errata RHBA-2026:0476for 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-2026:1735for 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-2026:1717for 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-2026:1706for 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 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