New vSphere Features Simplified Management Faster lifecycle management with Live Patching for ESX and reduced planned downtime for upgrades.

These questions cannot be easily answered without understanding the basic memory management concepts in ESX. Understanding how ESX manages memory will also make the performance …

A. vSphere introduces Advanced Memory Tiering with NVMe allowing users to add memory capacity to a host by using an NVMe device as a secondary memory tier that is installed locally in a host, thus …

Jul 15, 2025 · In vSphere with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, the surface area of ESX that can be live patched has been dramatically expanded. This includes the vmkernel, user-space daemons, …

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Jul 24, 2025 · Upgrade Components – Upgrade each of the vSphere components (vCenter and ESX). SDDC Manager will use the appropriate sequencing to ensure compatibility with the VCF 5.2 Bill of …

Mar 31, 2025 · We previously announced the extension of the General Support period for VMware vSphere 7.x and VMware vSAN 7.x, and we would like to take this opportunity to remind customers …

ESX uses five memory management mechanisms to dynamically reduce the amount of machine physical memory required for each virtual machine. These are page sharing, ballooning, memory …

Jun 23, 2025 · The base ESX version is static for all additional images and cannot be customized. The vendor addon, firmware, and components of each image definition can be customized to …

Starting March 24, 2025, there will be an important change to how you download VMware software binaries (including updates/patches) for VCF, vCenter, ESX, and vSAN File Services.