Yea what the IMT piece means is that is the RHEL version that has been tested and qualified.
And it means that support will point to that as the issue rather than troubleshooting the problem (honestly, rightfully so… we didn’t test/qualify RHEL 7)/
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To: Parisi, Justin <Justin.Parisi@netapp.com>
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For what it is worth: NetApp's IMT shows that 1.6.2 is supported with RHEL8.0
I just tried CENTOS 7.9 with XCP 1.6.2 (no problem):
[tmac@centos7 linux]$ sudo ./xcp activate
XCP 1.6.2; (c) 2021 NetApp, Inc.; Licensed to Tim McCarthy [None] until Thu Mar 4 15:45:00 2021
XCP already activated
[tmac@centos7 linux]$ sudo ./xcp help
USAGE:
xcp [[help] [command]| -version]
optional arguments:
help Show XCP help message and exit
-version Show XCP version number and exit
To see help text, you can run:
xcp help Display this content
xcp help info Step by step usage of all commands
xcp help <command> Individual command help
command:
activate Activate an XCP license on the current host
license Show XCP license information
show Request information from host about NFS exports
scan Read all the files from export path
copy Recursively copy everything from source to target
resume Resume copy operation from the point it was halted
sync Synchronize increment changes on source to target after copy
verify Verify that the target is the same as the source
delete Delete data on the NFS exported volume
[tmac@centos7 linux]$ cat /etc/redhat-release
CentOS Linux release 7.9.2009 (Core)
On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 9:42 AM Parisi, Justin <Justin.Parisi@netapp.com> wrote: