FYI: ESX 6.7 Compatibility
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I upgraded my ESXi host from 6.5 to 6.7 today and everything works fine, no problems at all. I upgraded my pfSense lab VMs to the latest hardware compatibility ("ESXi 6.7 and later (VM version 14)"), and now can set the guest OS to Other/"FreeBSD 11 (64-bit)". When set that way, ESXi no longer complains about the tools version mismatching.
So as far as I can tell, it's been a very boring upgrade. My favorite kind.
Of course YMMV so be sure to take backups and be ready in case it doesn't go so smoothly for you.
Also FYI: ESXi 5.5 will be EOL this September and there is no direct path from 5.5 to 6.7. You'll need to make a stop at 6.0 or 6.5 along the way.
As usual, online upgrading via SSH using the imageprofile command examples from https://esxi-patches.v-front.de/ worked flawlessly.
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Thanks for the tip.
I just did a scan yesterday with Update Manager and it didn't find this 6.7 release. Time to do some reading…
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Awesome, great to hear that the pesky vmware tools message is going to disappear. I should be carrying out the upgrade soon after backing up my ESXi host.
It's quite interesting that Jim uses ESXi… Maybe that's why it's been so stable for me ::) ::) ::)
