Give us your feedback on ZENworks 2016 Platform Changes

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over 7 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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jblackett over 7 years ago in reply to MigrationDeletedUser

That was an omission on my part, it is on my platform matrix for testing and I have updated this post to reflect that.
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jblackett over 7 years ago in reply to MigrationDeletedUser

Good call out Bill. You'll notice I've updated the post to list that we will be supporting OES 11SP2 and OES2015. So if that means we end up support SP3 that's what we'll need to do. Will work closely with Madhan P and the OEs team to keep us sync'd up. I apologize for the oversight.
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jblackett over 7 years ago in reply to MigrationDeletedUser

Thanks simon. On the Primary Server side I'm really trying to simplify my testing and development matrix to give us the best chance to focus our testing and ensure the best quality. If there's significant enough push back against requiring SLES 12 or the Appliance I'm willing to reconsider this, but at the moment this was our default stance.

For SLES 12 the and higher should be there, I just added it.

I will check into KVM support. Need to find out form the Common Appliance team that maintains the base appliance what will be required.
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jblackett over 7 years ago in reply to nathelpdesk

Good call out. I'll check with Madhan and the OES team and see if I can confirm their schedule. I would be inclined to provide support for OES as a satellite so if the schedules don't align well we'll look at supporting 11SP3.
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jblackett over 7 years ago in reply to MigrationDeletedUser

Good feedback. I'm pretty sure that we won't get to NoSQL based db in ZENworks 2016, but it is something we have been discussing for areas where it makes sense. Likely we'd end up with a combination of dbs optimized for the things we need them for. But again, I think that will end up being a bit longer term.
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jblackett over 7 years ago in reply to dhspeirs

Thanks for your feedback, will take that into consideration. What about the option of using a virtual appliance instead of full SLES?
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amatect3 over 7 years ago

Please don't remove SQL2008R2 support unless there is some very specific functionality you need in SQL2012. Having to purchase yet another Microsoft licence to be able to run a non-Microsoft product is really not good. I'd far rather you worked at getting it to support PostgreSQL on SLES12!
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MigrationDeletedUser over 7 years ago

So the base O/S for OES11 / 2015 which is SLES11sp3 will not get the latest agents either? will the SuSE O/S on OES be updated before the new ZCM launch?
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MigrationDeletedUser over 7 years ago

First I think there's another typo - in the Satellites section you refer to Primary Servers when saying no longer supported.

Now for my questions:

- why is SLES11 SP4 not supported as a Primary Server particularly given that SLES12 is different?

- presumably by "SLES12" you actually mean either mean SLES12 and later (i.e. SP1 now in beta so released for this new version) or SLES12 SP1?

I can't recall if the ZENworks Appliance is currently supported on KVM so if not there might want to be some thoutht by Micro Focus to add that for all their appliances. The reason for raising this is that Apple are moving from VMware to KVM for their internal VMs saving $Ms and when that sort of shift happens others follow ...

Thanks.
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MigrationDeletedUser over 7 years ago

I've no problem with this. I suggest for those that need to upgrade their primary server platforms to move to the appliance anyway.

This is probably not what you want to hear, but anyway:) On the database side I would like to see added a a NoSQL like solution (
www.mongodb.com/nosql-explained). I would not mind if that would replace Pervasive as the default. Pro's I see:
-Scalable
-Replication/HA/Failover
-Ready for multitenancy
Would love to have the ability to have the database be (parly) availabe to a ZCM Sattelite on sattelite locations with 'slow' connections. Pro's
-Support local device registration
-Support local device refresh vs over with WAN
-Caches not only bundles, but also the bundle metadata
-Changes are replicated back to the Master
-Scale out in a multitenancy environment
The main DB/replica may not always be 100% up to date, but do we really care about that?
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