VMware Compatibility Guide for ESXi 5.0 - 5.1 and 5.5

[Johan3]

Because the ESXi 5.X version is end of support, you can no longer select them in the VMware Compatibility Guide.

Can you someone tell me how I can get the old compatibility information?
More specifically I'm looking for the support CentOS version for ESXi.5.

Thank you for your feedback.

[scott28tt]

@Johan3 

Moderator: Please try and create a thread in the area for the related product - moved to ESXi Discussions

[e_espinel]

Hello

Support for CentOS 6.6 has been introduced for these products:

• ESXi 5.0 Update 3, ESXi 5.1 Update 1, ESXi 5.1 Update 2 , ESXi 5.5, ESXi 5.5 Update 1 and ESXi 5.5 Update 2

link: https://blogs.vmware.com/guestosguide/guest-os/linux/centos

[Johan3]

Hi Enrique,

The end of technical guidance for ESXi 5.5 was sept 2020. Therefore I assume that when downloading the VMware_GOS_Compatibility_Guide.pdf from the VM Compatibility Center today, it does not contain information about ESXi.

Therefore I was wondering if there is somewhere an archive available where you can download the pdf for ESXi 5.5 at the time it was still supported.

I need to know if CentOS 7.x was at the time supported on ESXi 5.5. Ideally I need to know this as well for ESXi 5.0 and 5.1.

Regards,

Johan

[e_espinel]

Hello.

The information you are requesting is very old. Attached is what I found in my archives

[vbondzio · Accepted solution]

This here is the earliest archive.org snapshot for the GOS compatibility PDF: https://web.archive.org/web/20120112192454/https://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide2/pdf/VMware_GOS_...

You must know that you should get off of 5.5 so I'm assuming there is a good reason you can't. Just curious why you'd care about guest OS supportability ...

[Johan3]

Hi VBondzio,

This is exactly what I need. Thanks a lot!

The purpose of my search is that a customer is reluctant to upgrade it's system and claimed that CentOS 7.X (which is still supported) could be run on ESXi 5. I was not sure and therefore was looking for this info. Anyhow, I find it a non discussion because ESXi 5 is already past its end of life so in my opinion a upgrade should be executed, independently from the guest os.

Regards,

Johan

[GeneHuh10]

Would you also have the old archive of System Compatibility Guide for ESXi 5.1?