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KyleCompassion
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vCNS product roadmap

So I see that vCNS 5.5 has been out of GA for over a year with no product that I can see as a replacement, except NSX maybe. It also already had an exception made to extend support to 2016 instead of EOL'ing in 2015 as per VMmware's 2-year EAP lifecycle. However, I don't see any plans or hints at a vCNS 6.0 product. Right now I'm leveraging vCNS App and Firewall to secure a mixed PCI/nonPCI VDI environment. Reading between the lines it looks like vCNS 5.5 is the end of the line and they're going to force us over to NSX come Q3 2016 if I want to still leverage the functionality App and Firewall were providing. Does anyone have any info on vCNS beyond 5.5? Am I right to think "NSX"  will be the answer? Or is there another product I'm not aware of that is offering the App and Firewall functionality now?

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Schenkewitz
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Contributor

vCNS is no longer purchaseable as single product from VMware, but it's included in vCloud Suites.Thats why the support lifecycle was extended until 2016 i think.

Every new customer is forced to buy an vCloud Suite to use all functionalities of vCNS.

I also found this PDF from VMware for vCNS EOL and Bundling with vCloud Suites - https://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/vcns/vmware-vcloud-networking-and-security-standalone-prod...

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dmuligan
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According to the lifecycle product matrix, vCNS support is ending in 19/09/2016 and is not included in vCloud Suite 6, so I guess that the best way to new installations now is to deploy NSX, latest versions of vCNS 5.5.3 and 5.5.4 seem to be patches only and not new features.

Am I right ?

Thank you.

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frank_wegner
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

Yes, dmuligan, you are right.

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