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  • 1.  EOL of ESX 4?

    Posted Aug 15, 2011 01:51 AM

    Dear all,

    I heard that ESX 4 will soon have EOL. In my company i have installed two ESX 4 server and still got about 2 years of active subscription, so will i get support on my ESX 4? or do i need to upgrade to 5 and change to ESXi in order to get support?

    Thank you!!



  • 2.  RE: EOL of ESX 4?

    Posted Aug 15, 2011 04:07 AM

    End of support for vSphere for isn't until 2014, so I'm not sure where you heard that:

    http://www.vmware.com/support/policies/lifecycle/enterprise-infrastructure/eos.html



  • 3.  RE: EOL of ESX 4?

    Posted Aug 15, 2011 04:35 AM

    ESX3.5 is still supported to late 2013, so you should be fine for ESX4.

    Edit: Should have refreshed. ^ What he said.



  • 4.  RE: EOL of ESX 4?

    Posted Aug 15, 2011 04:50 AM

    Hi,

    One thing that's relevant, although it's not EOL, it is "End of being current". Any servers built in recent times should have been built with ESXi - I would refer to it as "EOL" for a new build, regardless of the "Official Support" statement.