VMware enhances the Hardware versions on the Virtual
Machines with most of their updates. This table below helps us understand the
ESXi\ESX Versions that are in Market together with vCenter Server Level and
their compatibility with different Virtual Machine Hardware Versions. There are
lot of fixes and enhancements in every Hardware Level. In this post, I am not
focussing more of the features available in each Hardware Levels.
ESXi/ESX version
|
Hardware
version
|
Compatible with vCenter Server version
|
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Version
11
|
Version
10
|
Version
9
|
Version
8
|
Version
7
|
Version
4
|
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ESXi 6.0
|
Create,
Edit, Run
|
Create,
Edit, Run
|
Create,
Edit, Run
|
Create,
Edit, Run
|
Create,
Edit, Run
|
Create,
Edit, Run
|
vCenter Server 6.0
|
ESXi 5.5
|
Not Supported
|
Create, Edit, Run
|
Create, Edit, Run
|
Create, Edit, Run
|
Create, Edit, Run
|
Create, Edit, Run
|
vCenter Server 5.5
|
ESXi 5.1
|
Not
Supported
|
Not
Supported
|
Create,
Edit, Run
|
Create,
Edit, Run
|
Create,
Edit, Run
|
Create,
Edit, Run
|
vCenter Server 5.1
|
ESXi 5.0
|
Not Supported
|
Not Supported
|
Not Supported
|
Create, Edit, Run
|
Create, Edit, Run
|
Create, Edit, Run
|
vCenter Server 5.0
|
ESXi/ESX 4.x
|
Not
Supported
|
Not
Supported
|
Not
Supported
|
Not
Supported
|
Create,
Edit, Run
|
Create,
Edit, Run
|
vCenter Server 4.x
|
ESX 3.x
|
Not Supported
|
Not Supported
|
Not Supported
|
Not Supported
|
Not Supported
|
Create, Edit, Run
|
vCenter Server 2.x and later
|
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