If you need to downgrade virtual hardware version of your VM there are several choices. I have previously wrote about this possibility and why one would want to do it here and here (for Wkst local VMs only). Basically VMware supports three ways to downgrade virtual machine hardware version. But first let’s go back in time […]
Downgrade Virtual Machine Hardware – what’s your options?
Virtual Machine hardware version evolves with every major release of VMware vSphere. When you upgrade VMware vSphere to the latest release, you upgrade your vCenter, your ESXi hosts, then you update VM tool in your VMs. Those VMs do have the latest VM tools, but continue to run on the hardware version of the release […]
