Let's hope for smooth upgrades in the next couple of weeks. With 518 days, the development time of vSphere 6.7 was 3 months shorter than the previous version but is still much longer than the release cycles in the vSphere 5 era. Since vSphere 6.0 VMware started to extend their major release cycles.

VMware vSphere Virtual Disk Development Kit 6.7.0 Critical Alert - ESXi 7.0 U3, U3a, U3b and vCenter 7.0 U3b are no longer available for download due to critical issues.

VMware vSphere Command Line Interface 6.7.

VMware vRealize Orchestrator Plug-In for vSphere Replication 8.1.

VMware Virtual SAN Witness Appliance 6.7.

VMware Product Interoperability Matrices. If you haven’t already seen, check out the release notes here. As you might expect with an Update 1 release there are a number of patches, fixes and new additions with ESXi 6.7 U1. Set the compatibility level that the virtual hardware should be upgraded to.

vCenter Server 6.7 cannot manage ESXi 5.5 or earlier hosts. To go along with the newly released VMware vCenter 6.7 Update 1 release, comes VMware ESXi 6.7 Update 1 as well. Design a virtualized data center with VMware vSphere 6.7 Mike Brown. VMware vSphere 6.7 Release Notes and Download Links vCenter Server 6.7 can manage ESXi version 6.0 or 6.5 hosts in the same cluster with ESXi 6.7 hosts. Today VMware made vSphere 6.7 bits available for everyone to download.

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