Thanks very much for your response Carl, this is the information I was looking for.
Renata On Thu, 20 Feb 2020, Carl Zetie - [email protected] wrote: >To reiterate what?s been said on this thread, and to reaffirm the official IBM >position: > > > * Scale 4.2 reaches EOS in September 2020, and RHEL6 not long after. In > fact, the reason we have postponed 4.2 EOS for so long is precisely because > it is the last Scale release to support RHEL6, and we decided that we should > support a version of Scale essentially as long as RHEL6 is supported. > * You can purchase Extended Support for both Scale 4.2 and RHEL6, but (as > Jonathan said) you need to look closely at what you are getting from both > sides. For Scale, do not expect any fixes after EOS (unless something like a > truly critical security issue with no workaround arises). > * There is no possibility of IBM supporting Scale 5.0 on RHEL6. I want to > make this as clear as I possibly can so that people can focus on feasible > alternatives, rather than lose precious time asking for a change to this plan > and waiting on a response that will absolutely, definitely be No. > > >I would like to add: In general, in the future the ?span? of the Scale/RHEL >matrix is going to get tighter than it perhaps has been in the past. You >should anticipate that broadly speaking, we?re not going to support Scale on >out-of-support OS versions; and we?re not going to test out-of-support (or >soon-to-be out-of-support) Scale on new OS versions. > >The impact of this will be mitigated by our introduction of EUS releases, >starting with 5.0.5, which will allow you to stay on a Scale release across >multiple OS releases; and the combination of Scale EUS and RHEL EUS will allow >you to stay on a stable environment for a long time. > >EUS for Scale is no-charge, it is included as a standard part of your S&S. > > >Regards, > > > >Carl Zetie >Program Director >Offering Management >Spectrum Scale & Spectrum Discover >---- >(919) 473 3318 ][ Research Triangle Park >[email protected] > >[signature_2106701756] > > > _______________________________________________ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss
