VMWARE VSPHERE 6.5 STANDARD UPDATE
VMWARE VSPHERE 6.5 STANDARD UPGRADE
VMWARE VSPHERE 6.5 STANDARD FULL

If you have any questions about this announcement, please reach out to your VMware Representative, your VMware Reseller Partner, or contact VMware Support. The extended general support excludes fixes requiring architectural changes as well as significant upgrades to 3rd party or open-source software.Please see the Knowledge Base article at.

VMWARE VSPHERE 6.5 STANDARD UPGRADE

The vCenter Server upgrade is subject to the upgrade matrix from vCenter Server 6.5.x to 7.0.x release line.Please see the Knowledge Base article for further details. If you cannot upgrade, we advise that you maintain the browser compatibility for vSphere 6.5 Adobe Flash Client in your environment.

VMWARE VSPHERE 6.5 STANDARD UPDATE

For hosts managed by vCenter Server for Windows (in order to be able to use VMware Update Manager for subsequent upgrade of ESXi), you need to upgrade vCenter Server to 6.7 Patch 05 or later.

For hosts managed by vCenter Server Appliance, you need to upgrade vCenter Server to 6.7 Update 3 or later (to get feature parity of HTML5 UI).

vCenter Server 6.7 uses the HTML5-based web client as compared to Adobe Flash client in vCenter Server 6.5. We recommend that you upgrade vCenter Server 6.5 instances to vCenter Server 6.7 and manage the ESXi 6.5 hosts using the upgraded vCenter Server 6.7 instances.

Major web browsers aligned their efforts to disable or stop running Flash applications around Dec 30, 2020.

This special general support extension for ESXi 6.5 hosts will be offered with the below caveats: Please see for VMware support policy details. Deviations from this configuration or any other VMware supported configuration will be considered unsupported. The caveats defined below are applicable for the updated vSphere 6.5 general support period. Limitations for vSphere 6.5 extension of general support: Customers who will need vSphere 6.x support beyond Octoshould plan to move to vSphere 6.7 (or preferably move to vSphere 7). Extended Support will only be available on vSphere 6.7 – our final long-term support 6.x offering. Note: For vSphere 6.5 there is no plan for Extended Support after the end of general support. Summary of Key Dates for vSphere 6.5 Product Version The longer vSphere 6.5 supportability period is intended to help you work through an uncertain time with worry-free stability and introduce an added buffer period for planning future upgrades as you resume regular operations moving forward. In parallel, we are also extending the general support period for VMware vSAN 6.5 and 6.6. There is no change in support dates for any other vSphere version. Originally, vSphere 6.5 was scheduled to reach EoGS (End of General Support) on November 15, 2021. The original EoTG (End of Technical Guidance) date of Novemstill applies for vSphere 6.5. Today we are extending the general support period for vSphere 6.5 by 11 months, to October 15, 2022.

To help you manage through the ongoing situation, we had previously extended the general support period for vSphere 6.7 ( read the blog post). We can help address some of your challenges by offering you both flexibility and continued support as we all work together to get to the other side of this pandemic.Įxtension of VMware vSphere 6.5 General Support Period It has also led to uncertainty as to when your business operations will return to normal. That’s created challenges for some of our customers with regards to IT operations and strategic planning.

VMWARE VSPHERE 6.5 STANDARD FULL

This month marks a full year that many businesses transitioned to a work from home model with the onset of the global pandemic. By - Paul Turner, VP Product Management, Cloud Platform Business Unit, VMware

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