The supported hypervisor upgrade paths for the NSX-T Data Center product versions.
| NSX-T Data Center 3.1 | NSX-T Data Center 3.0 | NSX-T Data Center 2.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Supported vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) | Supported vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) | Supported vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) |
| KVM: Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 18.04 Baremetal: Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04 |
Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS with Kernel version 4.4.0.x | Ubuntu 18.04.2 and Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS with Kernel version 4.4.0.x |
| KVM: RHEL 7.7, RHEL 8.2 RHEL 7.9 (Starting NSX-T Data Center 3.1.1) Baremetal: RHEL 7.6, RHEL 7.7, RHEL 7.8 |
RHEL 7.6, RHEL 7.7 | RHEL 7.6, RHEL 7.5, and RHEL 7.4 |
| KVM: CentOS 7.7, 8.2 Baremetal: CentOS 7.8, CentOS 7.7, CentOS 7.6 |
CentOS 7.6, CentOS 7.7 | CentOS 7.5 and CentOS 7.4 |
| KVM: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 sp4 Baremetal: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 sp3, sp4 |
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 sp3, sp4 | SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 sp3, sp4 |
Adhere to the following upgrade paths for each NSX-T Data Center release version.
- NSX-T Data Center 2.5.x > NSX-T Data Center 3.1.
- NSX-T Data Center 3.0.x > NSX-T Data Center 3.1.
