Product End-of-Availability Notice

Brocade Fabric OS
End-of-Availability Notice and Fact Sheet

Last Updated: September 4, 2019

This document provides notification of new End of Availability (EOA) activity for Brocade® Fabric OS® (FOS) releases, and
it also includes the EOA dates for previous FOS releases in accordance with the Brocade Fabric OS Support Policy. The
objective is to assist customers and partners in making timely decisions to smoothly transition from FOS releases that have
reached EOA to actively supported FOS versions according to the published milestones.

This document covers FOS releases from v6.4.x to the most recent release that has reached End of Availability. The
document is updated when a new FOS major version is released and, as a consequence, an actively supported FOS major
version reaches EOA.

Fabric OS Major Release General Availability (GA) EOA Notice Date EOA Date Affected Hardware
Date Platforms
FOS v6.4.x March 30, 2010 January 21, 2014 July 23, 2014 Brocade 4100, 4900,
5000, 7500/7500E, 7600,
and 48000
FOS v7.0.x April 29, 2011 N/A September 27, 2014 None
FOS v7.1.x December 14, 2012 April 15, 2015 October 15, 2015 Brocade 8000
FOS v7.2.x July 26, 2013 N/A March 16, 2016 None
FOS v7.3.x June 27, 2014 N/A March 14, 2017 None
FOS v7.4.x March 31, 2015 June 30, 2018 March 30, 2019 Brocade Encryption
Switch, Brocade 300,
5100, 5300, 7800,
VA-40FC, DCX, and
DCX-4S

General Availability (GA) Date

The GA date is the date on which the first FOS release for the given major release level was made generally available to
customers; for example, for the FOS v6.4.x release level, the date that FOS v6.4.0 was made available for download and
use.

EOA Notice Date

The partner and customer End of Availability notification begins the transition period. During the transition period, this major
FOS release will be supported as per the existing customer support agreement.

NOTE: Brocade elected not to publish notification for FOS v7.3.x or earlier major releases when they reached EOA but no
hardware platforms were affected. The EOA dates listed in this notice serve as reference for the milestones
established according to the Brocade Fabric OS Support Policy.

Broadcom FOS-EOA-OT100
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EOA Date
After this date, Brocade will no longer provide scheduled maintenance or patch releases for all versions of this FOS major
release. Critical customers issues that are reported during or after this period may still be addressed with patch releases on
this major release.

Affected Hardware Platforms

Whenever applicable, we document the list of Brocade SAN hardware platforms that are supported by this major FOS
release but not by the next major FOS release.

Compatibility
Brocade may elect to discontinue compatibility tests on Fabric OS versions that have reached End of Availability. As such,
we do not guarantee compatibility when operated with products that use later versions of FOS. No fixes will be made on any
software applications or APIs for issues found in the FOS versions that have reached End of Availability.

Migration Path
We encourage customers to migrate to the supported Fabric OS versions available from Brocade. If you have questions or
comments regarding this notice, please contact your Brocade sales representative. For reference, the actively supported
Fabric OS versions and their GA dates are provided in the following table.

Fabric OS Major Release GA Date

FOS v8.0.x December 16, 2015
FOS v8.1.x December 14, 2016
FOS v8.2.x November 30, 2017

Broadcom FOS-EOA-OT100
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