vSphere 7 – The biggest innovation since the launch of ESXi. vSphere 7 delivers essential services for the modern hybrid cloud. There are a lot of exciting features like Native Kubernetes support, vSphere Lifecycle Manager,vCenter Server profiles, vCenter Multi-homing support, VM template versioning, assignable hardware, improved DRS & vMotion and vCenter Update Planner, etc are released with vSphere 7.0. You can also take a look at my article to understand what’s new with vSphere 7.0. We will talk in detail about most of the new features of vSphere 7.0 in the upcoming articles. In this article, We will see the difference between vSphere 6.7 and vSphere 7.0 in an easily readable tabular format.
VMware vSphere 6.7 and newer default to only TLS 1.2. Earlier versions of vSphere have the “TLS Reconfiguration Utility” that can enable and disable TLS 1.0 and 1.1. Refer to the documentation for usage guidelines. Enabling and disabling cipher suites is beyond the scope of this document and not recommended except under the direct guidance. Download VMware vSphere. Select Version: Customers who have purchased VMware vSphere 7.0 can download their relevant installation package from the product download tab below. Looking to upgrade from vSphere 6.7? Visit the VMware vSphere Upgrade Center.
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As we discussed already, there are a lot of exciting new features that are released with vSpere 7.0. Below the comparison table, shows the difference between VMware vSphere 6.7 & vSphere 7.0 new features and configuration maximums of the virtual machine, ESXi hosts, vCenter Server, etc. There are a lot of configuration maximums that are similar in both vSphere 6.7 & vSphere 7.0. I didn’t include all the configuration maximums in the below table.
I hope the above comparison table helps you to understand the key difference between VMWare vSphere 6.7 & vSphere 7.0. I hope this is informative for you. Thanks for Reading !!! Be social and share it with social media, if you feel worth sharing it.
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VMware vSphere 6.7 has been announced by VMware recently and there are many enhancement and new features are available with this release. Question is how we can obtain a free version of vSphere 6.7 for our non-production or testing environment.
As earlier how we used to get free license for older versions same method we have the options to generate vSphere 6.7 license. License key with no expiration date can created free at VMware’s website. You can use the “Free Hypervisor” as identical to the paid version but with some software limitations.
Also Free version has some technical Spec and limitations , find the below .
5.Navigate to Manage -> Licensing
6. Click Assign license and enter your license key and start using the free vSphere 6.7