How is it important to enhance virtual machine hardware level if you don't need the extra features the latest offers?

Are there benefits or reason to pass the levels of virtual machine hardware if you don't need new features later versions give you?

We are getting ready for VSphere 6 and begin to migrate some of our guests.  Most of our virtual machines are at levels 7, 8 or 9.

From what I've seen, the features of material level 10 and 11 are not everything what we need on most of our virtual machines.  I'm happy to walk if later versions of material are better, more stable, etc and we should upgrade the hardware even if we don't need the extensive features.

Mike O'Donnell

Hi Mike,.

VMware sees as a best practice to run on the latest version of material (see the section of the Virtual Machines on this page: KB VMware: vSphere 5.x upgrade to vSphere recommended 6.0) and if you encounter a problem with a virtual machine, support may ask you to update the version. In practice it might give you more stability or some performance enhancements.

I was like you although I don't necessarily keep my VMs up-to-date at the hardware level. I make sure they are relatively recent but.

You want to make sure that all cluster hosts are compatible on all hosts. the last thing you want is to have a failure and knowing that the client cannot run on a different host due to incompatibility.

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