Is v9.5 u3a an alpha build or is it stable for production use?

[morty]

I plan to upgrade vSphere to 6.7 and before that I was wondering if this is a stable build first.

[skrause]

Yes it is a stable release.

Veeam does not typically put updates out for general download that are not considered stable and fully supported. The only people who are in their alpha/beta channels are specific targeted customers and partners.

[morty]

Thanks, I was just confused about the "a" in the version. Not sure what it stands for.

[veremin]

Smaller updates that are mostly focused on platform support typically get a character prefix, while major releases increment digit Update 1/2/3/4, etc.

It's stable release that can be safely used in production.

Thanks.

[Gostev]

Thanks, I was just confused about the "a" in the version. Not sure what it stands for.

This was adopted from how VMware labels the new builds each time they reissue one, so that people could distinguish between builds more easily than with 6-digit build numbers. For example, in the past few months we've seen vSphere 6.7, vSphere 6.7a, vSphere 6.7b and so on. They are actually at vSphere 6.7d already, as of today

Update 3a is a significant update though, so it should not have used "a" to start with. And at some point, the intention was to call it Update 4. There's a whole story behind that, but basically we were forced to call it Update 3a