RHEL on Appliances instead of Suse?

Hi all,

It has already been mentioned before in one of the threads below:

Apparently the Suse installations on Netbackup Appliances will be replaced by Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).

Supposedly, this is also the reason that 2.7 is not available for the appliances yet, whereas 7.7 is available for other platforms...

I have a couple of questions:

• Is it indeed true that the appliances will be running RHEL in the next update?
• When will 2.7.1 become available and will it be RHEL based?
• Why is this switch performed? I can imagine the upgrade process will be quite complicated and may cause many issues during the upgrade process...

Any insight on the questions would be appreciated :)

Thanks

Fred