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Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne year ago, Broadcom killed the Free vSphere Hypervisor, but on April, with the VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 3e, the free (and limited) version is back again! Broadcom makes again available the VMware vSphere Hypervisor (the entry-level and free hypervisor). But now Broadcom has released the GA of VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 and VMware vSphere Foundation 9.0. So, the question is easy… where is the ESXi 9.0 free edition?
Reading Time: 4 minutesAccording to the VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 Product Support Notes there are several VMware features deprecated! All of deprecated features will be removed in a future vCenter release. And some features has already been removed in version 9.0 because deprecated in previous versions. Deprecation of vSphere Clustering Service (vCLS):
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhen 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 […]
Reading Time: 14 minutesBroadcom 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:
Reading Time: 2 minutesBroadcom 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. Maybe they will choose again to create […]
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne year ago, Broadcom killed the Free vSphere Hypervisor, but now, with the last VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 3e, the free (and limited) version is back again! Broadcom makes again available the VMware vSphere Hypervisor (the entry-level and free hypervisor). To download the free ESXi, you still need to login in the Broadcom Support Portal, but now you don’t need anymore any license entitlement.
Reading Time: 4 minutesVMware ESXi 8 has dropped the compatibility with a lot of old CPU models, as describiled in Broadcom’s article 318697 (CPU Support Deprecation and Discontinuation In vSphere Releases). The result if the following error message if you try to install ESXi 8 on a server with an unsupported CPU:
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