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You should check annually that all server operating system or a virtualization technology in your network are still eligible for IBM subcapacity reporting and are on the list of officialy technologies supported by License Metric Tool.
If not you have a compliance issue. IBM will expect that in 180 days you have moved to a newer version of such a technology.
The list of platforms IBM plan to removal is maintained on the IBM Support website here.
Below is an extract from the website as well as the most important dates.
| Technology | End of support by vendor | Planned removal from the list of technologies eligible for subcapacity licensing and supported by License Metric Tool |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| IBM i 6.1 | 9/30/2018 | End of 2Q 2020 |
| Windows 2008 | 1/14/2020 | End of 3Q 2020 |
| Windows 2008 R2 | 1/14/2020 | |
| Windows 7 | 1/14/2020 |
Resources
- The current list of eligible Virtualisation Technology can be found here
