The supported upgrade paths for the NSX product versions.

Adhere to the following upgrade paths for each NSX release version.

  • NSX 3.2.x > NSX 4.1.x.
  • NSX 4.0.x > NSX 4.1.x.
Note: The following upgrade paths are not supported:
  • Upgrade from NSX 3.2.2 to 4.0.1 or 4.0.1.1.
  • Upgrade from NSX 3.2.3 to 4.1.0.0 or 4.1.0.1
The reason is that the General Availability (GA) of the targeted upgrade version happened before the GA of your current version of NSX. Some capabilities and important fixes might not be available in the targeted versions due to the chronological order in which the versions were released.
Table 1. Hypervisor Support
NSX 4.1, 4.0, 3.2: Supported vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi)
Table 2. Bare Metal Server Support
NSX 4.1 NSX 4.0 NSX 3.2
Ubuntu: 20.04, 18.04, 16.04 Ubuntu: 20.04, 18.04, 16.04 Ubuntu: 18.04, 16.04
RHEL: 8.4, 8.2, 7.9, 7.7, 7.6 RHEL: 8.4, 8.2, 7.9, 7.7, 7.6 RHEL: 8.3, 8.0, 7.9, 7.8, 7.7, 7.6
CentOS: 8.4, 8.2, 7.9, 7.7, 7.6 CentOS: 8.4, 8.2, 7.9, 7.7, 7.6 CentOS: 8.3, 8.0, 7.9, 7.8, 7.7, 7.6
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES): 12 sp5, 12 sp4, 12 sp3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES): 12 sp5, 12 sp4, 12 sp3 SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES): 12 sp4, 12 sp3
OEL: 7.9, 7.8, 7.7, 7.6 OEL: 7.9, 7.8, 7.7, 7.6 OEL: 7.9, 7.8, 7.7, 7.6
Windows Server: 2016, 2019 Windows Server: 2016, 2019 Windows Server: 2016, 2019