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Give us your feedback on ZENworks 2016 Platform Changes

jblackett

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over 3 years ago

As you've all heard we're busy working on the next major version of ZENworks. While we are still early in the build out there are a few things we know are going to change with relations to supported platforms. I wanted to take this opportunity to share this information as early as possible so that you can plan for this and if there's a critical impact give you, enough time to let us know.

Database

The following Database versions will be supported:

Sybase Anywhere 17

Microsoft SQL 2012 or higher

Oracle 11.2 and higher

This effectively means that the following database platforms will no longer be supported:

Microsoft SQL 2008 and 2008R2

Oracle 11.1 and earlier

Primary Servers

The following platforms are expected to be supported for Primary Servers:

Windows Server 2012 SP1, Windows Server 2012R2 and Windows Server 2016

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 and higher

Micro Focus ZENworks Appliance on VMware, Hyper-V, SLES/OES XEN and Citrix XENServer

This effectively means that the following server platforms will no longer be supported as Primary Servers for ZENworks 2016:

Windows 2003, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008R2

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11

RedHat Enterprise Linux Server (all versions)

Satellites

The following platforms are expected to be supported for Satellites:

Windows Server 2008R2 SP1, Windows Server 2012SP1, Windows Server 2012R2 and Windows Server 2016

Windows 7SP1 and higher

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11SP4 and higher

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11SP4 and higher

Open Enterprise Server 11SP2 and higher

RedHat Enterprise Linux Server 6.6 and higher

This effectively means that the following server platforms will no longer be supported as Primary Servers for ZENworks 2016:

Windows 2003, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008R2

Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7SP0

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11SP3 and earlier

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11SP3 and earlier

RedHat Enterprise Linux Server 6.5 and earlier

Managed Agents

The following platforms are expected to be supported as ZENworks 2016 agents:

Windows Server 2008R2 SP1, Windows Server 2012 SP1, Windows Server 2012R2 and Windows Server 2016

Windows 7SP1 and higher

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11SP4 and higher

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11SP4 and higher

Open Enterprise Server 11SP2 and higher

RedHat Enterprise Linux Server 6.6 and higher

OS-X 10.8.3 and higher

iOS 8.x and higher

Android 5.x and higher, possibly 4.x depending on adoption of 5.x/6.x between now and release

This effectively means that for the following platforms you would be able to run an older 11.x agent against the ZENworks 2016 client, but no new capabilities will be added for:

Windows 2003, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008R2 without SP1

Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7SP0

OS-X 10.8.2 and earlier

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11SP3 and earlier

SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11SP3 and earlier

RedHat Enterprise Linux Server 6.5 and earlier

Most of these decisions are based on the need to move architectural components which no longer support the older releases. The exception being the decision to drop RedHat Enterprise Linux Server as a Primary platform. This is based on the small number of customers that are currently utilizing this platform and the cost of maintaining and testing this platform.

If you have concerns about any of these decisions, now is the time to let us know about it so that we can adjust if required and technically feasible. Feel free to either comment on this post or send an email to zen@microfocus.com.

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MigrationDeletedUser over 8 years ago

The omission of an agent for Windows Phone will effectively keep us out of all MDM tenders including for customers running ZCM already. All tenders for MDM include requirement for platform support for iOS, Android and Windows phone. Any plans for support?
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jblackett over 8 years ago in reply to chrischu$emplogoPC

The EULA for OES indicates that the SLES entitlement included with NOWS/OES can be used to support services that support OES. In the past this has been interpreted to indicate that as long as you are using ZENworks to inventory or manage OES that you can leverage it for this purpose. If your legal team is uncomfortable with that interpretation then yes the appliance would be my suggestion.
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jblackett over 8 years ago in reply to jeffstacey$emplogoPC

Thanks for the feedback. We are planning a Linux traditional to appliance migration tool that would make this easy and not change the identity of the server so you wouldn't need to do anything with your closest server rules. I'll share more once the dev team finishes their design.
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jeffstacey over 8 years ago

I think is a huge mistake to drop support for SLES 11 as a primary server. SLES 12 is just too new and has issues. SLES 11 is under general support until 2019.

An appliance could potentially work if there is a supported upgrade path, including being able to migrate the certificate authority from Windows to the appliance and full cmd line access for things like custom imaging scripts etc.

The largest pain I see is having to redo the Closest server rules for every one of my 150+ locations. If there was an automated way to do this that would really help with migrating to an appliance.
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MigrationDeletedUser over 8 years ago in reply to nuborgh$emplogoPC

"Typically the way to do this is to install a new Primary / Satellite into the zone and then assign the appropriate content so that it gets copied. Finally if it is the first Primary move the CA certificate to another server, which can be done via ZCC in 11SP4."
Then remove the old primaries from the zone. Can't get any easier:)
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chrischu over 8 years ago

What about OWS customers?
Currently ZCM is included but there is no SLES12 entitlement? Is the appliance the only way for OWS customes?
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MigrationDeletedUser over 8 years ago

This list will be fine for us, provided that the older agents will continue to work for the older client OSes (and I would like an option to be able to re-download the older agent for those clients from a 2016 system).
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MigrationDeletedUser over 8 years ago in reply to jblackett

Will there be a SLES 12 entitlement included for the primary servers?
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MigrationDeletedUser over 8 years ago in reply to jblackett

I also would really like to see OES 11sp2 remain as a satellite.
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MigrationDeletedUser over 8 years ago in reply to MigrationDeletedUser

NoSQL ... you mean a database that isn't based on SQL, right?

Maybe something hierarchical ...
... what about eDirectory / FLAIM?

(Just had to get that in there.)
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