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VMware vSphere Infrastructure

VMware vSphere - Supported Platform

Following are the virtual infrastructure platforms supported by VMware vSphere, with your respective supported versions listed -

Virtual Infrastructure	Version
Platform	VMware vSphere 6.5 VMware vSphere 6.0 VMware vSphere 5.5 VMware vSphere 5.1 VMware vSphere 5.0 VMware vSphere 4.1 VMware vSphere 4.0?
Hypervisor	ESXi 6.7 ESXi 6.5 ESXi 6.0 ESXi 5.5 ESXi 5.1 ESXi 5.0 ESXi 4.1 ESXi 4.0?
Management Server	vCenter Server 6.7 vCenter Server 6.5 vCenter Server 6.0 vCenter Server 5.5 vCenter Server 5.1 vCenter Server 5.0

Following are the VM specifications and requirements supported by VMware vSphere -

VM Specification	Requirement
Virtual Hardware	The Virtual hardware of all types and versions are supported, which includes virtual disks larger than 2 TB and up to recent addition- 62TB VMDK VMware does not support snapshotting VMs with disks engaged in SCSI bus sharing, such VMs are not supported by VMware Backup & Replication. RDM virtual disks in physical mode, independent disks, and disks connected via in-guest iSCSI initiator are not supported and are skipped from processing automatically. Network shares and mount points targeted to 3rd party storage devices are also skipped as these volumes/disks are not visible in the VM configuration file.
OS	All VMware supported operating systems. Application-Aware processing support from Microsoft Windows 2003 SP1 and later.
Software	VMware Tools(optional) are required for Application-Aware processing and File-level restore from Microsoft Windows guest OS. All latest OS service packs and patches (required for Application-Aware processing)?