Cisco announces the end-of-sale and end-of-life dates for the Cisco Nexus 1000V Virtual Switch for Microsoft Hyper-V. The last day to order the affected product(s) is December 14, 2018. Customers with active service contracts will continue to receive support from the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) as shown in Table 1 of the EoL bulletin. Table 1 describes the end-of-life milestones, definitions, and dates for the affected product(s). For customers with active and paid service and support contracts, support will be available under the terms and conditions of customers' service contract.
Table 1. End-of-Life Milestones and Dates for the Cisco Nexus 1000V Virtual Switch for Microsoft Hyper-V
Milestone | Definition | Date |
End-of-Life Announcement Date | The date the document that announces the end-of-sale and end-of-life of a product is distributed to the general public. | September 14, 2018 |
End-of-Sale Date: | The last date to order the product through Cisco point-of-sale mechanisms. The product is no longer for sale after this date. | December 14, 2018 |
Last Ship Date: | The last-possible ship date that can be requested of Cisco and/or its contract manufacturers. Actual ship date is dependent on lead time. | January 11, 2019 |
End of SW Maintenance Releases Date: | The last date that Cisco Engineering may release any final software maintenance releases or bug fixes. After this date, Cisco Engineering will no longer develop, repair, maintain, or test the product software. | December 13, 2019 |
End of New Service Attachment Date: | For equipment and software that is not covered by a service-and-support contract, this is the last date to order a new service-and-support contract or add the equipment and/or software to an existing service-and-support contract. | February 13, 2020 |
End of Service Contract Renewal Date: | The last date to extend or renew a service contract for the product. | December 11, 2022 |
Last Date of Support: | The last date to receive applicable service and support for the product as entitled by active service contracts or by warranty terms and conditions. After this date, all support services for the product are unavailable, and the product becomes obsolete. | December 11, 2023 |
Product Migration Options
Customers are encouraged to migrate to Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure.
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