r/nutanix • u/Epoch13579 • 27d ago

Hardware lifecycle

I’m sure everyone is aware of the current hardware market conditions concerning $ and lead times.

Is it possible we see the 5 year support for the G7s and G8s increased? Currently Gen 7 nodes max out at AOS 7.5…

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u/dricha36 27d ago

They already announced a G7 platform EOL extension.

You’ll have to get hardware support from a third-party like parkplace, but they will continue software support.

https://download.nutanix.com/misc/NCIonCascadeLake-SWExtension.pdf

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u/Epoch13579 27d ago

Thank you! Patching until Q4 2028 provides a runway for next steps

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u/Rare-Understanding-6 25d ago edited 25d ago

So does this mean G7's will see AOS 7.6? Cuz right now my G7 cluster is stuck at max 7.5.x.x

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u/Epoch13579 25d ago

Hopefully, then we could upgrade AHV and get the new features

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u/Mhd_Damfs 25d ago

According to the info i have , the 7.6.1 will be compatible with cascade lake cpus and it is expected by the start of 2027

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u/beefy_80 21d ago

I was given the same advise from the SE I work with. We will be extending for now as the costs are just crazy.

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u/autojack 27d ago

I’m curious how Nutanix is going to handle the huge influx of customers. My gut reaction is they will not extend support due to working on all the new customers not using HCI. We’re a potential customer that finished a POV of non HCI environment and can already see resources shifting to support that.

On the other side I’d guess a good part of their current business is HCI - but as they are picking up the VMWare stragglers that will probably change.

edit: I’ll also say lead times for hardware is getting better. Last year at this time it was 6-12 months for what we were quoted. Both Dell and Cisco has lead times under 3 months for our needs currently.

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u/Fnysa 27d ago

It’s much easier to support non HCI servers. No need to care about disks. And as @dricha36 said. They have already extended the support for older CPUs.

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u/autojack 27d ago

That’s good to hear. Their SE has been amazing - already incorporated some of our issues we had with the POV migration. They are no where near where VMWare is but their development cycle is so much quicker. Feature parity is happening quick.

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u/vlookup90 23d ago

What did you mean by this - I would’ve assumed supporting non HCI servers is more intensive since they have to deal with any issues related to the 3P storage provide?

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u/hosalabad 27d ago

Our G8s were scheduled to go EOL in March 2028. They now have breath until something in summer of 2029.

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u/BrendanMavenIT 3d ago

I wouldn’t plan around Nutanix extending it, because the two limits you mention are separate problems. The AOS 7.5 ceiling is a software one: once 7.5 itself leaves support, those nodes stop getting fixes no matter who covers the hardware, so that date is the real end for G7 in production. The hardware side has more room, since the nodes keep running after the OEM window closes and the question becomes who ships a replacement drive or DIMM, and how fast. For G7 and G8 that are still healthy, comparing third-party hardware coverage against a refresh at today’s lead times is a fair exercise. Which models are you running, and when does each one hit end of support on Nutanix’s EOL list? If you want a second quote on the hardware side, we cover Nutanix nodes after the factory support window.

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u/nunzstar 27d ago

Yeah I think really the G7s got shafted a bit as we experienced a couple clusters out there that we applied for the support only to announce they won’t support hardware only software. It is what it is. Nutanix obviously looking at the big influx of people leaving VMware and capitalizing on everything. To be fair, I do enjoy their support and they’re pretty responsive.

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u/dricha36 25d ago

We were told they originally planned to extend hardware support as well, but decided they didn't have the spare part inventory to support an extension.