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An operating system or a virtualization technology that reaches end of support by its vendor is removed from the list of technologies eligible for subcapacity reporting and the list of technologies supported by License Metric Tool. IBM provides 180 days for moving to a newer version of such a technology.
Plans of removal
The table below provides information about IBM’s plans for withdrawing technologies that reached end of support by their vendors from two lists:
- The list of technologies eligible for subcapacity licensing
- The list of technologies supported by License Metric Tool
| Technology | End of support by vendor | Planned removal from the list of technologies eligible for subcapacity licensing and supported by License Metric Tool |
|---|---|---|
| Oracle VM Server for x86 | 3/31/2021 | End of 4Q 2021 |
| Suse Linux Enterprise 11 | 3/31/2019 | End of 2Q 2022 |
| Ubuntu 16 | 4/2021 | |
| RHEL 5 on Power | 10/31/2020 | |
| IBM i 7.1 | 4/30/2018 |
History of changes
| Technology | End of support by vendor | Date of removal from the list of technologies eligible for subcapacity licensing and supported by License Metric Tool |
|---|---|---|
| Oracle Linux 6 | 3/31/2021 | End of 3Q 2021 |
| CentOS 6 | 11/30/2020 | End of 2Q 2021 |
| Debian 8 | 6/30/2020 | |
| VMWare vSphere 6.0 | 3/12/2020 | |
| Windows 2008 | 1/14/2020 | End of 1Q 2021 |
| Windows 2008 R2 | 1/14/2020 | |
| Windows 7 | 1/14/2020 | End of 4Q 2020 |
| IBM i 6.1 | 9/30/2018 | End of 2Q 2020 |
| Debian 7 | 5/31/2018 | End of 1Q 2020 |
| IBM i 5.x | 9/30/2013 | |
| RHEL 5 x86 | 3/31/2017 | |
| RHEV 3.x | 9/30/2017 | |
| Solaris 10 | 1/30/2018 | |
| Ubuntu 12 | 4/28/2017 | |
| Ubuntu 14 | 4/30/2019 | |
| vSphere 5.x | 9/19/2018 | |
| Windows Vista | 4/13/2010 | |
| XenServer 6.x | 6/30/2018 |
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Document Information
Modified date:
23 September 2021
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