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Arbor SP-TMS 8.4.0-Compatibility Guide 20180327
Arbor SP-TMS 8.4.0-Compatibility Guide 20180327
Compatibility Guide
SP and TMS Versions 7.0 to SP 8.4/TMS 8.4
Arbor Networks ® SP and TMS: Compatibility Guide
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Document Number: SPTMS-CG-84-2018/03
27 March 2018
Contents
Preface
A deployment of Arbor Networks SP and TMS products can have multiple software versions running on multiple SP and TMS
appliances. This SP and TMS Compatibility Guide describes Arbor’s support for these multi-version, multi-platform deployments.
Arbor updates this guide whenever a new or updated SP or TMS product is released.
Note: In this guide, the term “deployment” includes SP-only deployments and SP/TMS deployments unless otherwise specified.
Also, the term “appliance” includes any physical or virtual device that runs SP or TMS software.
Arbor provides the following types of support for SP and TMS appliances during each phase of the appliance lifecycle:
• General Availability (GA): New software upgrades, maintenance software releases, appliance replacement, and phone
support.
• End of Sale Notice and End of Sale: Same support as GA. Arbor sends out an End of Sale notification at the start of this
phase.
• End of Maintenance (EoM): Appliance replacement and phone support only.
When an SP or TMS appliance reaches the End of Life (EoL) phase, all support ends and the appliance is no longer included in
this guide.
To view the lifecycle status and relevant dates for Arbor Networks SP and TMS appliances, download the “Arbor SP Lifecycles”
document or the “Arbor TMS Lifecycles” document from the ATAC website (https://support.arbornetworks.com).
Arbor’s software support lifecycle applies to major (x.0) releases and minor (x.y) releases only. For maintenance releases (version
x.y.z), the first two digits in the version number determine the support lifecycle.
See About Software Versions on page 6.
Arbor provides the following types of support for SP and TMS software during the GA phase and EoM phase of the software
lifecycle:
• GA: New software upgrades, maintenance software releases, and phone support.
• EoM: Phone support only.
When an SP or TMS software version enters the End of Support (EoS) phase, all support ends and that software version is no
longer covered in this guide.
To view the lifecycle status and relevant dates for Arbor Networks SP and TMS software products, download the “Arbor SP TMS
Software Lifecycles” document from the ATAC website (https://support.arbornetworks.com).
8.4
1Arbor does not recommend running any version of SP 8.0 on SP 5500 appliances with serial numbers starting with AZLR due to lower
performance on aging hardware. Contact ATAC (https://support.arbornetworks.com) before upgrading to any version of SP 8.0 on a SP 5500
appliance.
2. Upgrade the software on the appliances in your deployment in the following order:
a. SP leader appliance
b. Backup SP leader appliance
c. Non-leader SP PI appliances or SP appliances with the user interface role
d. SP BI appliances or SP appliances with the data storage role
e. SP CP and FS appliances or SP appliances with the traffic and routing analysis role
f. TMS appliances
For software upgrade instructions, see “Upgrading SP and TMS Software” in the Arbor Networks SP and TMS Advanced
Configuration Guide.
3. (Optional) Configure any new appliances that you added to your deployment.
See “About Configuring SP Appliances and TMS Models” in the Arbor Networks SP and TMS User Guide.
4. If your deployment has a backup SP leader, enable automatic failover for the backup leader in the SP web UI.
Important: Before you perform a multi-version upgrade, verify that the upgrade will not yield any unsupported software version
pairings in your deployment. If you need help upgrading, contact ATAC (https://support.arbornetworks.com).
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1 TMS 7.0.1 runs on Cisco ASR9K vDDoS (10G, 20G, and 40G) models only. You can only pair TMS 7.0.1 with SP 7.0.1.
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7.5.1 or higher.