[sles-beta] SLES12 Question concerning update path from SLES11-SP3

[Jan Weber]

Hi,

On 03/04/2014 10:19 AM, urs.frey at post.ch wrote:
> Hi SuSE team
> I have a large number of Oracle Weblogic servers (formerly BEA WLS)
> running on SLES11-SP3 in production on brand new HP Blade BL460c-Gen8
> Intel HW
> These installations do have an application lifecycle until 2018.
> But SLES11 will be under GTS only until 2016.

At SUSECon 2013 we announced an extension of the general SLES lifecycle
from 7 to 10 years. This applies to SLES 11 and for all future SLES
releases, so SLES 11 will go out of general support in 2019.

> It would be great if one could upgrade from SLES11-SP3 to SLES12.
> Is there something like this possible?

We will support migration from SLES 11 to SLES 12.

Jan

> I mean there was already an upgrade path form SLES10-SP3 to SLES11-SP1/2
> (Offline upgrade worked best!)
>  
> This would be great!
> I mean “zypper dup” does exist. The only challenge would be changing
> from SystemVinit to System-D..
>  
> Thank you very much for your feedback
> Best regards
>  
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