The supported upgrade paths for the NSX-T Data Center product versions.

Adhere to the following upgrade paths for each NSX-T Data Center release version.

  • NSX-T Data Center 3.0.x > NSX-T Data Center 3.2.x.
  • NSX-T Data Center 3.1.x > NSX-T Data Center 3.2.x.
Table 1. Hypervisor Support
NSX-T Data Center 3.2 NSX-T Data Center 3.1 NSX-T Data Center 3.0
Supported vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) Supported vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) Supported vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi)
Ubuntu: 20.04, 18.04 Ubuntu: 20.04, 18.04 Ubuntu: 18.04, 16.04.2 LTS (Kernel version 4.4.0.x)
RHEL: 8.4, 8.2, 7.9 RHEL: 8.2, 7.7

RHEL: 7.9 (Starting NSX-T Data Center 3.1.1)

 RHEL: 7.7, 7.6
CentOS: 8.4, 7.9 CentOS: 8.2, 7.7 CentOS: 7.7, 7.6
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES): 12 sp4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES): 12 sp4 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES): 12 sp4, 12 sp3
Table 2. Bare Metal Server Support
NSX-T Data Center 3.2 NSX-T Data Center 3.1 NSX-T Data Center 3.0
Ubuntu: 18.04, 16.04 Ubuntu: 18.04, 16.04 Ubuntu: 18.04, 16.04
RHEL: 8.3, 8.0, 7.9, 7.8, 7.7, 7.6 RHEL: 7.8, 7.7, 7.6

RHEL: 7.9 (Starting NSX-T Data Center 3.1.2.1)

 RHEL: 7.7, 7.6
CentOS: 8.3, 8.0, 7.9, 7.8, 7.7, 7.6 CentOS: 7.8, 7.7, 7.6

CentOS: 7. 9 (Starting NSX-T Data Center 3.1.2.1)

 CentOS: 7.7, 7.6
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES): 12 sp4, 12 sp3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES): 12 sp4, 12 sp3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 12 sp4, 12 sp3
OEL: 7.9, 7.8, 7.7, 7.6 OEL: 7.6, 7.7

OEL: 7. 8, 7.9 (Starting NSX-T Data Center 3.1.2.1)

 OEL: 7.6, 7.7 (Starting NSX-T Data Center 3.0.2)
Windows Server: 2016, 2019 Windows Server: 2016, 2019 Windows Server: 2016