VOSS / Fabric Engine EOVM date identical for all releases

[jeronimo]

On download site, EOVM for all VOSS / Fabric Engine releases is shown as end of April 2025.

1) Is this correct!? (Or is there another reference document for this?)

2) What are Fabric Engine extended lifetime releases? None seem to be listed either. Where to obtain accurate information for all of this?

[Yoann_Jonard]

You should not take into account these EOVM date too strictly to be honest...I agree with you the wording is not the best and it's misleading but Extreme Networks will continue to support you on the 1st of May 2025 if you have version 9.0.5.0 even if it's written that the EOVM for this particular version is the 30th of April.

To share my experience, in 6 years working with Extreme, I've received only once the answer from the GTAC that I have to upgrade the device before engineering could get involved. And GTAC was helping me troubleshoot the issue, it's only when it became to complex and engineering needed to be involved that this requirement came. Customer was running 6.1.6.0 and we were at the time of VOSS 8.2 so you can imagine...

[Yoann_Jonard]

Hello @jeronimo ,

From what I've seen and understood, you should not be too concerned about this EOVM date.

Versions are released and supported for 18 months when they are released, but the trick is that minor versions inherit from the EOVM of the major version they belong to.

If we take the FE 9.0.5.0 for example, its EOVM is on the 30th of April 2025 only because the 9.0.0.0 has been released on the 27th of October 2023, and October 2023 + 18 months leads us to end of April 2025.

If you wonder which versions you should install, you can check the recommandation page. (9.0.4.0 at the time of writing).

Best regards,

[jeronimo]

Thanks for the response. However that is kind of disappointing. As a result, you're kind of a beta tester all the time if you want to stay supported. (Once the release have matured, you're forced to upgrade to a feature release due to EOVM).