RE: EOL for supported OSes & Hypervisors

[Paul Angus]

Hi Yiping,
Support for XenServer 7.1 LTSR will be in 4.11  - as with all things new, I'd 
recommend extensive testing of your exact use cases, but our smoke testing 
shows to be working fine.

Kind regards,

Paul Angus

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-Original Message-
From: Yiping Zhang [mailto:yzh...@marketo.com] 
Sent: 16 January 2018 22:39
To: users@cloudstack.apache.org
Subject: RE: EOL for supported OSes & Hypervisors

From end user’s perspective, listing just OS, hypervisor version’s EOL status 
is only half the story.  We need also to consider Apache CloudStack’s own EOL 
status to help users chose which combination of OS/Hypervisor/ACS versions to 
deploy for a stable and fully supported environment.

For example, I am currently on RHEL 6.7 + XenServer 6.5 SP1 + ACS 4.8.0. When 
all things are considered, my only upgrade path is to go with RHEL 6.7 + ACS 
4.9.3 + XenServer 7.0.  But hotfix for Meltdown/Spectre for XenServer 7.0 is 
not available either!   Therefore, I am stuck with my current environment!

BTW, is there any plan to add support for XenServer 7.1 LTSR to a stable ACS 
version?

Yiping

On 1/12/18, 9:24 AM, "Eric Green" <eric.lee.gr...@gmail.com> wrote:

Official EOL for Centos 6 / RHEL 6 as declared by Red Hat Software is 
11/30/2020. Jumping the gun a bit there, padme. 

People on Centos 6 should certainly be working on a migration strategy 
right now, but the end is not here *yet*. Furthermore, the install 
documentation is still written for Centos 6 rather than Centos 7. That needs to 
be fixed before discontinuing support for Centos 6, eh?

> On Jan 12, 2018, at 04:35, Rohit Yadav <rohit.ya...@shapeblue.com> wrote:
> 
> +1 I've updated the page with upcoming Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
> 
> 
> After 4.11, I think 4.12 (assuming releases by mid of 2018) should remove 
"declared" (they might still work with 4.12+ but in docs and by project we 
should officially support them) support for following:
> 
> 
> a. Hypervisor:
> 
> XenServer - 6.2, 6.5,
> 
> KVM - CentOS6, RHEL6, Ubuntu12.04 (I think this is already removed, 
packages don't work I think?)
> 
> vSphere/Vmware - 4.x, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5
> 
> 
> b. Remove packaging for CentOS6.x, RHEL 6.x (the el6 packages), and 
Ubuntu 12.04 (any non-systemd debian distro).
> 
> 
> Thoughts, comments?
> 

RE: EOL for supported OSes & Hypervisors

[Yiping Zhang]

From end user’s perspective, listing just OS, hypervisor version’s EOL status 
is only half the story.  We need also to consider Apache CloudStack’s own EOL 
status to help users chose which combination of OS/Hypervisor/ACS versions to 
deploy for a stable and fully supported environment.

For example, I am currently on RHEL 6.7 + XenServer 6.5 SP1 + ACS 4.8.0. When 
all things are considered, my only upgrade path is to go with RHEL 6.7 + ACS 
4.9.3 + XenServer 7.0.  But hotfix for Meltdown/Spectre for XenServer 7.0 is 
not available either!   Therefore, I am stuck with my current environment!

BTW, is there any plan to add support for XenServer 7.1 LTSR to a stable ACS 
version?

Yiping

On 1/12/18, 9:24 AM, "Eric Green"  wrote:

Official EOL for Centos 6 / RHEL 6 as declared by Red Hat Software is 
11/30/2020. Jumping the gun a bit there, padme. 

People on Centos 6 should certainly be working on a migration strategy 
right now, but the end is not here *yet*. Furthermore, the install 
documentation is still written for Centos 6 rather than Centos 7. That needs to 
be fixed before discontinuing support for Centos 6, eh?

> On Jan 12, 2018, at 04:35, Rohit Yadav  wrote:
> 
> +1 I've updated the page with upcoming Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
> 
> 
> After 4.11, I think 4.12 (assuming releases by mid of 2018) should remove 
"declared" (they might still work with 4.12+ but in docs and by project we 
should officially support them) support for following:
> 
> 
> a. Hypervisor:
> 
> XenServer - 6.2, 6.5,
> 
> KVM - CentOS6, RHEL6, Ubuntu12.04 (I think this is already removed, 
packages don't work I think?)
> 
> vSphere/Vmware - 4.x, 5.0, 5.1, 5.5
> 
> 
> b. Remove packaging for CentOS6.x, RHEL 6.x (the el6 packages), and 
Ubuntu 12.04 (any non-systemd debian distro).
> 
> 
> Thoughts, comments?
>