Date: 10/6/2020

Field Technical Notice: FTN-20201006

Zerto Versions Affected:

• Zerto 8.5 and beyond

Description

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

• VMware vSAN 5.5
• VMware vCloud Director 9.1

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 Cloud Director are listed on VMware’s unsupported product list as outlined in this VMware product lifecycle matrix: https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/support/product-lifecycle-matrix.pdf.

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.