End of Support Life announcements for vSphere Replication & Site Recovery Manager Appliances using Photon OS 3.0

Products

• VMware Live Recovery

Environment

VMware Site Recovery Manager 8.x

Resolution

Photon OS 3.0 has reached end of support on 1st March 2024.
 

Q. What version of Photon OS is SRM & VR 8.8 using ? 
A. SRM & VR 8.8 uses Photon OS 4.0 
 

Q. What version of Photon OS is SRM & VR 8.6/8.7 using ? 
A. SRM & VR 8.6/8.7 uses Photon OS 3.0 

Q. Can SRM & VR 8.6/8.7 be upgraded from Photon OS 3.0 to 4.0 using a patch ? 
A. VMware doesn't plan to release a patch to provide an upgrade for Photon as it will be cumbersome to bundle these OS packages in a patch. 

Additional Information

FAQ: End of Support for Photon OS on vCenter Server (96577) - https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/96577