VMware vSphere

VMware vSphere (formerly VMware Infrastructure 4) is VMware's cloud computing virtualization platform.^[2]

VMware vSphere

Developer(s)	VMware
Initial release	April 21, 2009 (2009-04-21)
Stable release	8.0U3с[1] / October 9, 2024; 7 months ago (2024-10-09)
License	Proprietary
Website	vmware.com/products/cloud-infrastructure/vsphere

It includes vCenter Configuration Manager, as well as vCenter Application Discovery Manager, and the ability of vMotion to move more than one virtual machine at a time from one host server to another. ^{[citation needed]}

On February 12, 2024, VMware owner Broadcom discontinued general availability of vSphere Hypervisor free edition.^[3]

Releases

• On February 10, 2011 VMware released Update 1 for vSphere 4.1 to add support for RHEL 6, RHEL 5.6, SLES 11 SP1 for VMware, Ubuntu 10.10, and Solaris 10 Update 9.^[4]
• On July 12, 2011, VMware released version 5 of VMware vSphere.^[5]
• On August 27, 2012, VMware released vSphere 5.1. This extended vSphere to include VMware vSphere Storage Appliance, vSphere Data Protection, vSphere Replication and vShield Endpoint.^[6]
• In May 2014 SAP and VMware announced the availability of SAP HANA for production use on VMware vSphere 5.5.^[7]
• On February 3, 2015, VMware announced vSphere 6.0 with many new features and enhancements.^[8]
• On October 18, 2016, VMware announced vSphere 6.5 focusing on a simplified experience and improving security features.^[9]
• On April 17, 2018, VMware announced vSphere 6.7 focusing on simple and efficient management at scale, further improved security features, a universal application platform, and seamless hybrid cloud experience.^[10]
• On March 10, 2020, VMware announced vSphere 7.0.^[11][12]
• On September 15, 2020, VMware announced vSphere 7.0 Update 1.^[13][14]
• On March 9, 2021, VMware announced vSphere 7.0 Update 2.^[15][16]
• On August 30, 2022, VMware announced vSphere 8.0.^[17]

See also

• PowerCLI, command-line and scripting tool built on Windows PowerShell for managing and automating VMware productsPages displaying wikidata descriptions as a fallback
• vCenter is the centralized management utility
• VMware ESX/ESXi, the hypervisor operating system component
• VMware VMFS, the VMware file system component