ZERTO FIELD NOTICE FTN-20200312: End of Support for Selected Platforms in Next Release of Zerto Virtual Replication

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000004366

Affected Versions

All

Target Hypervisor

All

Field Notice ZVR

ZERTO FIELD NOTICE FTN-20200312: End of Support for Selected Platforms in Next Release of Zerto Virtual Replication

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Notice

Date: 03/12/2020

Field Technical Notice: FTN-20200312

ZVR Versions Affected:

Zerto 8 and onward

Description

The next release of Zerto Virtual Replication does not support the following platforms:

VMware vCenter version 5.5 and VMware ESXi version 5.5
VMware virtual machine hardware versions 7, 8, 9
vCloud Director 9.0
Windows Server 2008 for the ZVM operating system
CentOS 5 for re-ip support on vSphere
Microsoft System Center Virtualization Manager 2012 and Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012

The above releases continue to be supported on previous Zerto releases as described in the Zerto Interoperability Matrix.

Background

The above releases are end of support by the platform vendors:

The affected versions of vSphere and vCloud Director are listed on VMware’s unsupported product list as outlined in this VMware Knowledge Base article: https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/support/product-lifecycle-matrix.pdf.
The affected versions of Microsoft Server, System Center and Hyper-V Server are listed on Microsoft’s product lifecycle as end of support: https://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search

Solution Details

Prior to upgrading or installing the next release of Zerto, please upgrade to a supported release from VMware. The Zerto document Upgrading Zerto Virtual Replication has guidelines for upgrading VMware components.

If you are using the external database on the Zerto Virtual Manager, then please upgrade to a supported version of the SQL Server as described in the Zerto Interoperability Matrix before upgrading or installing the next release of Zerto.