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  • 1.  VM hardware version

    Posted Mar 26, 2018 04:40 PM

    Is there any advantage to upgrading vm hardware version? I have two hosts running Esxi 5.1 that I want to upgrade to Esxi 6, some of the vm's are running versions 7, 8 and 9 hardware versions. I want to be able to still use the Esxi client and not bother with a vcenter server if I can, so I believe I should not go higher then version 9, is that correct?



  • 2.  RE: VM hardware version

    Posted Mar 26, 2018 04:43 PM

    If on ESXi 6.0, you have the ability to use the ESXi embedded host client. The legacy C# (thick/fat/desktop/VI) client can also work, but it has no new features and abilities added to it.



  • 3.  RE: VM hardware version

    Posted Mar 26, 2018 04:45 PM

    So can I use this client with any version of vm hardware?



  • 4.  RE: VM hardware version

    Posted Mar 26, 2018 04:46 PM

    Yes.