vSphere 5.5 U1a force upgrade of the hardware version to 9 instead of 10?

Is there a way to force vSphere to upgrade the version of VM hardware to 9 instead of 10, when you select upgrade virtual hardware?  Main reason is that I don't think we are ready to start using the web console purely or PowerCLI.

Is there a way to force vSphere to upgrade the version of VM hardware to 9 instead of 10, when you select upgrade virtual hardware?

No, there are none. It will always improve to the latest version available for the ESXi host on which the virtual machine is currently registered. If it is registered on a 5.5 host it will move to v10, on a multitude of 5.1 to v9, on 5.0 in v8 etc. Apart from that it is impossible to control which version you want to upgrade virtual machine to.

Main reason is that I don't think we are ready to start using the web console purely or PowerCLI.

What is the problem with either? OK, I don't really like the service WebClient is but VMware clearly is the future (sad) and I don't think it's something you need to do very often.

And it's a simple one-liner of PowerCLI Set - VM - VM MyVM-Version v9 - confirm: $false to perform the upgrade.

If you are unhappy with this, then you probably don't want to use the ESXi shell that way or the other I guess:

# vim - cmd vmsvc/upgrade [ID VM previously acquired via vim - cmd vmsvc/getallvms] vmx-09

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