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End of Engineering Support for Clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.x

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This customer product communiqué announces a change in the support status of the IBM® Data ONTAP® 8.2.x Clustered release family. Customers running Data ONTAP 8.2.x on their N-Series systems are urged to consider this information and take any necessary action(s).

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October 25, 2016

This customer product communiqué announces a change in the support status of the IBM® clustered Data ONTAP® 8.2.x release family. Data ONTAP 8.2.x (Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode) is not affected by this announcement.

Customers running clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.x on their IBM N-Series systems are urged to consider this information and take any necessary action. IBM remains committed to supporting the clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.x release family; however, clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.4, currently available on the IBM Support site, is the last maintenance release of the clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.x release family. Further, effective October 2016, feature policy-variance requests (RPQs) that are specific to the clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.x release family will no longer be accepted.

Through July 31, 2017:

  • New maintenance and patch releases on the clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.x release family will be delivered only on an as-needed basis. Fixes for critical software issues that are found on N-Series systems that run clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.x will be delivered only in:
  • Patch derivatives of clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.4
  • Interoperability testing with clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.x and updates to the IBM Interoperability Matrix Tool, including SAN qualification RPQs, will continue.

After July 31, 2017:
  • Requests for bug fixes on the clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.x release family will no longer be accepted. Fixes for issues that are found on N-Series systems that run clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.x will be delivered only in patch derivatives of Data ONTAP 8.3.x (Version not supported by IBM)
  • Interoperability testing with clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.x and updates to the IBM Interoperability Matrix Tool will stop.
  • Manufacturing and SAN qualification RPQs that are specific to the clustered Data ONTAP 8.2.x release family will not be accepted. 

If you have questions relating to this customer product communiqué, contact IBM Customer Success Operations or your local IBM representative. 

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