VMware vSphere 9.0

VMware vSphere 9.0 is available in the following languages: • English • Italian • French • German • Spanish • Japanese • Korean • Simplified Chinese • Traditional Chinese Components of vSphere 9.0, including vCenter Server, ESXi, the vSphere Client, and the VMware Host Client, do not accept non-ASCII input. Compatibility Virtual Machine Compatibility for ESXi Virtual machines that are compatible with ESX 3.x and later (hardware version 4) are supported with ESXi 9.0. Virtual machines that are compatible with ESX 2.x and later (hardware version 3) are not supported. To use such virtual machines on ESXi 9.0, upgrade the virtual machine compatibility. See the ESXi Upgrade documentation. Guest Operating System Compatibility for ESXi To determine which guest operating systems are compatible with vSphere 9.0, use the ESXi 9.0 information in the VMware Compatibility Guide. The following guest operating system releases are deprecated or terminated in this release. Future vSphere releases will not support these guest operating systems: • Windows Vista, Windows 2003 / R2, Windows XP: Deprecated • Oracle Linux 5.x: Deprecated • Oracle Linux 4.9: Terminated • CentOS 5.x: Deprecated • Asianux 3.0: Deprecated • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 SP4: Terminated • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4: Deprecated • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12: Deprecated • Ubuntu releases 12.04, 18.10, 19.04 and 19.10: Terminated • Debian 7.x and 8.x: Deprecated • Debian 6.0: Terminated • Photon OS 1.0: Terminated • Flatcar Container Linux non-LTS releases: Terminated • All OS X and macOS releases: Terminated • FreeBSD 9.x and 10.x: Deprecated • FreeBSD 7.x and 8.x: Terminated • Solaris 10.x: Deprecated • All eComStation releases: Terminated • All SCO releases: Terminated VMware by Broadcom 75 VMware vSphere 9.0 • All CoreOS releases: Terminated Device Compatibility for ESXi To determine which devices are compatible with ESXi 9.0, use the ESXi 9.0 information in the VMware Compatibility Guide. Hardware Compatibility for ESXi To view a list of processors, storage devices, SAN arrays, and I/O devices that are compatible with vSphere 9.0, use the ESXi 9.0 information in the VMware Compatibility Guide. ESXi and vCenter Server Version Compatibility The VMware Product Interoperability Matrix provides details about the compatibility of current and earlier versions of VMware vSphere components, including ESXi, VMware vCenter Server, and optional VMware products. Check the VMware Product Interoperability Matrix also for information about supported management and backup agents before you install ESXi or vCenter Server. The vSphere Lifecycle Manager and vSphere Client are packaged with vCenter Server