What's New in Version 5.7.x

This topic summarizes the new features and important changes in HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise 5.7.x compared to HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise 5.6.5.

What's New in Version 5.7.0

The following is a summary of the new features, and information related to HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise 5.7.0.

Deploying HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise 5.7.0

You can install HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise 5.7.0:
  • as fresh platform installation. or
  • as an upgrade from HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise 5.6.5.

Upgrading from HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise 5.6.5
Before upgrading from HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise 5.6.5, ensure you upgrade the Kubernetes cluster to Kubernetes Version 1.28. Then upgrade as follows:
  1. Copy ERE 5.7.0 .bin file to /srv/bluedata/bundles on the primary controller.
  2. In the ERE Web UI, go to Settings, and click Update.
  3. After platform upgrade is completed, upgrade your Kubernetes version from 1.28 to any of these latest versions — 1.29, 1.30 or 1.31— as required.

Support for Kubernetes versions 1.29.9/1.30.5/1.31.1

Kubernetes versions 1.26.x. 1.27.x, and 1.28.x have entered maintenance mode and End of Life. To provide access to the latest Kubernetes versions, HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise 5.7.0 or higher version supports the following versions of CNCF-certified kebernetes distributions:
  • 1.29.9-hpe1
  • 1.30.5-hpe1
  • 1.31.1-hpe1
See Support Matrixes for complete Kubernetes versions.

Customers are not entitled to 2 TB of EDF storage with HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise Licenses

HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise licenses that are issued from the date of release of HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise 5.7.0, including renewal and extension licenses, do not include the 2TB of storage referred to in existing versions of the ERE Licensing Agreements. All storage quotas used by HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise platforms on the external Data Fabric clusters must be covered by a Data Fabric licenses.

CentOS not supported

Starting from HPE Ezmeral Runtime Enterprise 5.7.0, CentOS is not supported.