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Deploying ESXi 6.0 OVA on ESXi 5.5 physical server

Hello Experts,

We have a requirement to deploy ESXi 6.0 on ESX 5.5 Physical server. Is this possible. I read that there is a VM hardware version requirements to be met.

Please help.

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Yes, ESXi 5.5 is a supported host.

from Deploying the vCenter Server Appliance

Version 6.0 of the vCenter Server Appliance is deployed with virtual hardware version 8, ...

... ESXi 5.5.x supports up to virtual hardware version 10 with up to 64 virtual CPUs per virtual machine.

André

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