Harvester v1.2.x

Product Lifecycle & Support Phases

All Harvester releases will go through three stages: In Development, Latest, and then finally Stable. Please ensure you do not upgrade your production cluster to anything other than a listed Stable version. Use Latest versions for test purposes only.

Please see the 1.2.x release page for information on the current stable release, 1.2.1.

All versions listed below have an EOL date of 08 September 2024.

Harvester follows an N -1 support policy (meaning that the 2 most recent minor versions receive security and bug fixes) along with a 26-week release cycle. This results in a release being supported for 14 months (12 months of support and 2 months of upgrade period).

Scope of Support

A Harvester support entitlement includes support for the components that are bundled with the Harvester appliance. Certain components such as Longhorn storage are subject to additional usage based entitlement, see SUSE T&C or speak to your Account Executive for details. 

• Hypervisor Host OS
• Storage (Longhorn)
• Harvester cloud provider (CCM) and storage interface (CSI) 
• Terraform provider
• Windows VMDP Drivers

Support for guest Kubernetes distributions (e.g. RKE2, k3s) or Rancher Manager require a separate entitlement in addition to Harvester. 

Harvester & Rancher Support Matrix

Rancher is an open-source multi-cluster management platform. Harvester has integrated Rancher by default starting with Rancher v2.6.1.

Rancher Manager Supported Deployment

If a Harvester cluster requires Rancher Manager to be deployed on it, we support the following configuration: 

• 3 node/VM RKE2 or k3s cluster 
• Installed using the Rancher Helm chart according to the Rancher Documentation 
• Single node Rancher managers are not supported

Harvester CCM & CSI Drivers

CCM and CSI drivers support RKE1, RKE2 and k3s distributions, unless otherwise noted.

For Harvester CCM and CSI driver integration with RKE1, please install or upgrade to the latest chart manually from the Catalog Apps. Refer to the Harvester doc here for more details.

Starting with Harvester v1.2.0 + Rancher v2.7.6, please choose your RKE2 cluster to the following versions for the best Harvester cloud provider & CSI driver capability support.

For the RKE2 cluster versions with Harvester v1.1.2, please refer to the v1.1.x support matrix for more details.

Other Dependency Versions

Guest Operating System Support

Full support for the following guest operating systems that have been validated to run in Harvester: 

All other x86 operating systems are supported on a "best effort" basis. 

Hardware Requirements

For best results, SUSE recommends using YES certified for SLES 15 SP3 or SP4 Hardware with Harvester: https://www.suse.com/yessearch/. Harvester is built on SLE technology and YES certified hardware has additional validation of driver and system board compatibility. 

To get the Harvester server up and running, the following minimum hardware is required:

Testing environments with 1 GB NIC / 140 GB disk are not supported

We recommend server-class hardware for the best results. Laptops and nested virtualization are not commercially supported.