Comparison of Software Support Phases

Support Phase	Phase I: Full Support	Phase II:Extended Full Support	Phase III: Maintenance Support	End of Service Life
Feature enhancements	Yes	Yes	No	No
Support in major releases	Yes	Yes	No	No
Support for new hypervisor and guest OS releases	Yes	Yes	No	No
Maintenance bug fix support in minor releases	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Security patches	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
Technical support	Yes	Yes	No	No
Self help through knowledge base articles	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

The following diagram shows the phases in the software support lifecycle of an NVIDIA vGPU software product release.