Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 LTSR What’s New

In this post, I want to share with you some Citrix Hypervisor 8.2 LTSR what’s new. The feature I liked very much is the possibility to easily replace the Citrix Hypervisor host TLS certificates.

New features and improvements in Citrix Hypervisor 8.2

Increased configuration limits

The maximum host RAM is now 6 TB
The maximum number of logical processors per host is now 448 CPUs

Enable and disable read caching from within XenCenter
This feature can now be enabled and disabled for each individual SR from the XenCenter console. You might want to disable read caching in the following cases:

You have no file-based SRs
You do not have any cloned VMs
You have insufficient memory available to allocate to dom0 to derive any performance benefits

Changes to guest operating system support

Added

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP5 (64-bit)
Ubuntu 20.04 (64-bit)

Removed

Windows 7
Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2008 SP1

Security improvements

Install a TLS certificate on your Citrix Hypervisor server
Citrix Hypervisor now enables easy installation of server TLS certificates. 🥰

Enforcing use of the TLS 1.2 protocol
Citrix Hypervisor now enforces the use of the TLS 1.2 protocol for any HTTPS traffic between Citrix Hypervisor and an external network.

Disaggregation of the Citrix VM Tools
The Citrix VM Tools are now provided as two separate component: