What is the hardware version of a virtual machine in VMware? Complete guide and compatibility table

21ESXi 8.0 U216 vGPU per VM, 256 vNVMe disks, NVMe 1.3 support for Windows 11/Server 2022
20ESXi 8.0, Fusion 13256 cores per socket, virtual NUMA, 32 PCI Passthrough, vHyperthreading
19ESXi 7.0 U210 PVRDMA endpoints, native vMotion with PVRDMA, VMXNet3 v7, Direct3D 11
18ESXi 7.0 U1768 vCPUs and 24,560 GB RAM per VM, 8 GB 3D graphics, AMD SEV-ES
17ESXi 7.0USB 3.1 SuperSpeed+, Direct3D 10.1, virtual clock and watchdog, SGX
15ESXi 6.7 U2256 vCPUs, VMXNet3 v5
14ESXi 6.7NVDIMM, 64 NVDIMM devices, virtual PMEM, TPM 2.0, VMXNet3 v4
13ESXi 6.5Secure Boot, 16 PCI Passthrough, PCI Hot Add, virtual NVMe, Direct3D 10
11ESXi 6.0128 vCPUs, 4,080 GB RAM, virtual TPM, CPU Hot Add, VMXNet3 v2
10ESXi 5.5SATA virtual disks
9ESXi 5.164 vCPUs, Nested Virtualization, Direct3D 9
8ESXi 5.032 vCPUs, 1,011 GB RAM, USB 3.1, SVGA 3D HW Acceleration
7ESXi/ESX 4.x8 vCPUs, 256 GB RAM, Memory Hot Add, VMCI, VMXNet3, 10 virtual NICs
4ESX 3.x4 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM, SCSI Hot Add, Ballooning, SVGA, LSI Logic SCSI
1ESX 1.xFloppy, parallel ports, SCSI passthrough, IDE disks
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