I saw a warning regarding CentOS 6 EoL in SolusVM - what does it mean and what should be done?

Question

I saw a warning regarding CentOS 6 EoL in SolusVM - what does it mean and what should be done?

Answer

On the 30th of November, 2020 CentOS 6 reaches End of Life, see the following links for the details:

https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2020:2319

https://access.redhat.com/discussions/4768501

It should be noted that, unlike RHEL, there is no extended support option for CentOS. Once RHEL 6 exceeds Maintenance Support II at the end of November 2020, there will be no further updates for CentOS 6 at all.

Therefore, starting from the 1st of December SolusVM installed on CentOS 6 and OpenVZ 6 servers will receive the final update 1.25.x - after that, it will not be possible to update such instances to a newer version. It also will not be possible to install SolusVM on servers with CentOS 6.

In case of mixed setup - some nodes are using CentOS 6 and some CentOS 7 - nodes only with CentOS 7 will be updated to the latest available version.

Note: In the case of a mixed setup, updates can be installed only from the command line. It is strongly recommended to move VPSes from CentOS 6 to CentOS 7. Otherwise, there are could be issues with communication between Master and CentOS 6 nodes at some point due to version mismatch.

While it is still possible to stay on the CentOS 6 version of SolusVM - it will not receive any updates (including security ones), so we encourage you to migrate all your CentOS 6 nodes to CentOS 7 using our instructions: