Did you know that ESX 3.5 general support will end in less than 90 days?
Time to upgrade your Virtual Infrastructure?
Yes, that’s true. As you can see on this graphic below taken from VMware Website, the general support for VMware VI 3.5 will end the 21st of May 2010. It’s the same for the 2 hypervisors: ESX 3.5 and ESXi 3.5. For VCB (VMware consolidated backup) version 1.5 you have 5 months to go….
As for vCenter 2.5 it’s the same thing…
So for people which they still did not upgraded their infrastructure running under ESX 3.5, it’s high time to do so…
1. These dates do not apply to each individual maintenance (x.y.z) release or update. They apply to minor release level (x.y) only. For details on the maintenance release support lifecycle within a minor release, click on the appropriate minor release version number above.
2. Formerly known as VMware ESX Server.
3. Formerly known as VMware ESX Server 3i
Source: VMware
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Vladan,
Customers just need to update to VC 2.5 U6 and ESX/ESXi 3.5 U5 by May. from http://www.vmware.com/support/policies/lifecycle/vi/faq.html
VMware Virtual Infrastructure products being removed by May 2010:
ESX 3.5 versions 3.5 GA, Update 1, Update 2, Update 3 and Update 4ESX 3.0 versions 3.0 GA, 3.0.1, 3.0.2 and 3.0.3ESX 2.x versions 2.5.0 GA, 2.5.1, 2.5.2, 2.1.3, 2.5.3, 2.0.2, 2.1.2 and 2.5.4VirtualCenter 2.5 GA, 2.5 Update 1, 2.5 Update 2, 2.5 Update 3, 2.5 Update 4 and 2.5 Update 5VirtualCenter 2.0
VMware Virtual Infrastructure products remaining for Extended Support:
These versions will be the baseline for ongoing support during the Extended Support phase. All subsequent patches issued will be based solely upon the releases below.
ESX 3.5 Update 5 will remain throughout the duration of Extended SupportESX 3.0.3 Update 1 will remain throughout the duration of Extended SupportVirtualCenter 2.5 Update 6 expected in early 2010
Thanks for the info Rich…