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When you create a virtual machine or upgrade an existing virtual machine, you use the virtual machine compatibility setting to select the ESXi host versions that the virtual machine can run on.

The compatibility setting determines the virtual hardware available to the virtual machine, which corresponds to the physical hardware available on the host. Virtual hardware includes BIOS and EFI, available virtual PCI slots, the maximum number of CPUs, the maximum memory configuration, and other characteristics. New virtual hardware capabilities are typically released once a year with major or minor releases of vSphere.

The new VCF and VVF 9.0 introduce the virtual hardware version 22 with new limites and new capabilities!

Broadcom has just announced the General Availability (GA) of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 and the General Availability (GA) of VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) 9.0.

The best way to learn more about the new features is to try the new VMware Hands on Labs:

• What’s New with vSphere in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 (HOL-2630-01-VCF-L)
• What’s New in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 – Platform (HOL-2610-01-VCF-L)
• What’s New in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 – Automation (HOL-2610-02-VCF-L)
• What’s New in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 – Operations (HOL-2610-03-VCF-L)
• Unifying VM and Kubernetes Management with vSphere Supervisor in VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 (HOL-2633-01-VCF-L)

Broadcom has just announced the General Availability (GA) of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, the platform for the modern private cloud. And also has just announced the General Availability (GA) of VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF) 9.0.

Currently, vSphere 9.0 features are only available as part of VMware vSphere Foundation 9.0 and VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0. There is not yet an independent VMware vSphere 9.0 version.

Note that the new products are already in GA… seems that for version 9.0 Broadcom is not using the VMware vSphere 8.0 IA/GA release model.