Version 1809.5 does include a handful of improvements, especially to hyper-converged infrastructure. Here"s what"s new:
General
Accessibility improvements
Notification message improvements
Certificate handling improvements for upgrades
New splash screen when loading Windows Admin Center
Hyper-V
Add/remove virtual disk or drive for running VMs
VM Connect web console now works in the Virtual Machines tool on Failover Cluster and HCI Cluster connections
VM state refresh time is improved on Windows Server 2019 HCI clusters
Azure Site Recovery protection status is shown for VMs across all cluster nodes
VM health alerts now show VM name instead of VM ID
Clustering
UI improvements for Cluster Aware Updating
Extension Manager
User-installed extensions are persisted across Windows Admin Center upgrades
Increased resiliency against extension errors
Hyper-converged infrastructure
There are several notable new features for hyper-converged infrastructure:
Multi-select bulk actions for drives, volumes, and servers
With full support for shift/ctrl + click keyboard shortcuts, confirmation dialogs, and improved notifications. For example, you can now delete multiple volumes with just one click:
Monitor storage per-server
How much storage capacity is used per server, and how much needs to repair (normal after restarting), is now visible on the Server detail. Now you can track exactly how resync is progressing without relying on Get-StorageJob!
Better network activity monitoring
The Server detail page now has separate charts for non-RDMA and RDMA networking, each showing inbound and outbound traffic separately (summed over all adapters in the server).
In addition to the new features described above, this update also brings many other minor fixes and improvements throughout HCI.
This release seems to simply be an early look at the improvements ahead of general availability, so there are no known issues to be aware of. If you"re interested, you can download it from the Windows Insider page, under "Additional downloads".
