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The HPE StoreVirtual VSA product family is scheduled to begin its End of Life (EOL) process on 17 March 2019. The purpose of this notice is to explain the various stages of the EOL process and their impact on ordering, product availability, and other important dates. The EOL process has multiple stages that will be described as follows.
End of Life and Lifecycle Event Definitions:
End of Life Announcement (EOL-A): Refers to the EOL announcement date and any accompanying documents; for example a customer notice pertaining to the EOL process from EOL-A to the EOSL period.
End of Life (EOL): Used generically to describe the whole process from EOL-A to EOSL. The EOL-A date marks the beginning of the EOL process and defines the date from which other phases will to and from.
Discontinuance (DISC): Orders after this date will be accepted or fulfilled based on factory inventory availability. For hardware products, this date is critical. For software SKUs, this date is less relevant as inventory availability only depends on commercial availability of the licenses.
Obsolescence (OBSO): The last day to purchase a SKU (hardware or software), acceptance of orders is subject to factory availability before OBSO. At the OBSO date, SKUs are physically removed from HPE Price Lists, ordering and quoting systems.
End of Support Life (EOSL): HPE Engineering support for the associated products end on this date. EOSL is typically, 3 years past the OBSO date for software products or 5 years for hardware products.
