VMvisor installer ISO for 6.7 update01 upgrade. Does this installer also handle ver. 5.5?

[Cko001]

I want to update an old AMD Phenom II system running the free version version of 5.0 so I can test more modern OSes.  When downloading the 5.5 free hypervisor (VMvisor installer ISO (for upgrade of my 5.0 system) the download seems to be for 6.7 update01.  Does this installer also handle ver 5.5?

Only had basic understanding before, and have gotten a bit rusty over the past 6 years as I became more of a "cloud" guy since then.   Hoping to leverage this otherwise nice old build

Thanks.

[amohammadimir]

This upgrade path can be helpful:

[scott28tt]

The only vSphere Hypervisor (free ESXi) downloads available are 6.7 and 7.0.

All older versions are only available to customers with an active support contract.

5.0 and 5.5 have been out of support for some time now.

Your options are:

1. Install 6.7 or 7.0 if your hardware supports it
2. Install Windows or Linux on your hardware and run VMware Workstation with 6.7 or 7.0 nested in a VM
3. Install Windows or Linux on your hardware and run VMware Workstation to run the other OSes you want to test (forget running ESXi)
4. Replace your hardware

[Cko001]

Thanks, but my question was not really about the upgrade path.  Right now I only want to go from 5.0 to 5.5. The thing is, when I go to the 5.5 download page and try to get the 5.5 iso installer via the link, what i actually get is a file called Vmware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7-0.update01.  This implied to me either the download was wrong, or that the installer also handles the upgrade to 5.5. (despite its name) and I was trying to figure out which was the case.

[IRIX201110141]

Cko001​

Scott have answered your question. VMware doesnt offer "free" downloads of older version, especially when they already out of support.

Regards,
Joerg

[nachogonzalez]

As it was said before, ESXi 5.X is out of support for a few years now, Vsphere 6.0 will be EOS soon, i'd strongly suggest to download 6.7 or 7

Warm regards

[IRIX201110141]

IIRC EOS for 6.0 was in 2/2020.

Regards,
Joerg

[sudeshnas]

Hi Cko001,

You can download the ESXi 5.5 iso from the vmware patch downloader page.

Link:

https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch#search

Please look the below kb for the right build and then search using the same build number to get the iso download link.

Regards,

Sudeshna Sarkar

Install-Upgrade Specialist

[nachogonzalez]

thanks

[Cko001]

Thanks for this info.  But what I see here is not an ISO.  Am I supposed to make these files into an ISO?  I don't think my Hardware can handle 6.7. Its an old 3 core 720 Phenom II ( I don't think these were ever fully supported, but it worked great).  If this doesn't have what I want, I guess I will have to take Scott's answer for what it is, give up on Vsphere and head back to the cloud!  sigh.....

I would have posted back earlier but the forum is giving me weird messages every time I login and try to access, unless I switch brower from Chrome to something else like the new edge (400 error from nginx that the Request Header or Cookies are too large).