VMware ESXi 6.7
The VMware has announced and released vSphere 6.7 on April 17th 2018.VMware ESXi is one of the most popular Hypervisors. The latest version vSphere6.7 brought some new features are Virtual Hardware Version14,ESXi Quick Boot, single reboot upgrade, Instant Clone, EVC enable per VM,VCSA with Backup Tool, Virtual Disks increase from 60 to 256,Non –Volatile memory per host 1TB and you don’t need to worry about if upgrade is fail? in case you having a problems after upgrading we can roll back to existing ESXi version.
Make sure the host meets the minimum hardware configurations supported by ESXi6.7 To install or upgrade ESXi, your hardware and system resources must meet the following requirements: For a list of supported platforms, see the VMware Compatibility Guide at https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php
ESXi 6.7 requires a minimum 2CPU cores and 4 GB of physical RAM. HDD Min 6GB SCSI disk or a local, non-network, RAID LUN with unpartitioned space for the virtual machines ESXi 6.7 supports 64-bit x86 processors released after September 2006.
ESXi 6.7 requires the NX/XD bit to be enabled for the CPU in the BIOS. Hardware virtualization (Intel VT-x or AMD RVI) must be enabled on x64 CPUs. Below are the difference between vSphere6& 6.5and 6.7.
| Max support: | vSphere 6.0 | vSphere 6.5 | vSphere 6.7 |
| Physical RAM per Host | 6 TB,12TB can support OEM certified Hardware | 12 TB | 16 TB |
| Physical CPU per host | 480 | 576 | 768 |
| VM’s per Host | 1024 | 1024 | 1024 |
| VM hardware version | Virtual hardware 11 | Virtual hardware 13 | Virtual hardware 14 |
| Cluster size | 64 | 64 | 64 |
| CPU per VM | 128 GB | 128 GB | 128 GB |
| Memory per VM | 4 TB | 6TB | 6128GB 6TB |
| VMFS version | 5.61 | 6.81 | 6.81 |
| Authentication Manger | Platform service controller | Platform service controller | Platform service controller |
| vMotion | vMotion across VC
vMotion across vSwitch |
vMotion across VC
vMotion across vSwitch cross cloud vMotion |
vMotion across VC
vMotion across vSwitch cross cloud vMotion |
| Win to VCSA migration | VC 5.5 to vcsa 6.0 | VC 5.5 to VCSA 6.5 | VC 5.5 to 6.7 |
| vCenter HA | NO | YES | YES |
| VCSA Scale | 1000 hosts 10000 VM’s | 2000 Hosts 25000 | 2000 Hosts 25000 |
| VCSA OS type | Suse Enterprose | Photon OS | Photon OS |
| RAM per FT VM | 64GB | 64GB | 128 GB |
| vCPUs per FT VM | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| Virtual SCSI targets per vSCSI adapter | 15 | 15 | 64 |
| LUNs per server | 256 | 512 | 1024 |
VMware vSphere hardware versions and support maximums.
| Hardware | ESXi 6.5 & 6.7 | ESXi 6.0 | ESXi 5.5 | ESXi 5.1 | ESXi 5.0 | ESX/ESXi 4.x |
Hardware version |
13, 14 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 |
Max memory (GB) |
6128 | 4080 | 1011 | 1011 | 1011 | 255 |
Max number of logical
|
128 | 128 | 64 | 64 | 32 | 8 |
Max number of cores (vCPUs) per socket |
128 | 128 | 64 | 64 | 32 | 8 |
Max SCSI adapters |
4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
SATA adapters |
Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | No |
IDE hot plug support |
Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
Maximum NICs |
10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
Max video memory (MB) |
2048 | 512 | 512 | 512 | 128 | 128 |
SVGA displays |
10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
SVGA 3D hardware acceleration |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
PCI passthrough |
16 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 |
PCI hot plug support |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Nested HV support |
Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Serial ports |
32 | 32 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Parallel ports |
3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 |
Guest OS support |
91 | 91 | 91 | 91 | 91 | 78 |