Hardware features available with virtual machine compatibility settings for vSphere 8.0 and 9.0

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

The virtual machine compatibility setting determines the virtual hardware available to the virtual machine, which corresponds to the physical hardware available on the host. You can review and compare the hardware available for different compatibility levels to determine whether to upgrade the virtual machines in your environment. For Virtual Machine Hardware version compatibility, see ESXi hosts and compatible virtual machine hardware versions list

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi 8.0.x

VMware vSphere ESXi 9.0.x

Resolution

Please see table in the reference technical document

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/vmware-cis/vsphere/vsphere/9-0/vsphere-virtual-machine-administration/configuring-virtual-machine-hardwarevsphere-vm-admin/virtual-machine-compatibilityvsphere-vm-admin/hardware-features-available-with-virtual-machine-compatibility-levelsvsphere-vm-admin.html

 

 

Additional Information

ESXi hosts and compatible virtual machine hardware versions
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/312100/esxi-hosts-and-compatible-virtual-machin.html

Hardware features available with virtual machine compatibility settings (v4.1 to v7)
https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/318970/hardware-features-available-with-virtual.html