This release of VMware vSphere 8.0 includes VMware ESXi 8.0 and VMware vCenter Server 8.0. Read about the new and enhanced features in this release in the vSphere 8 Technical Overview Blog.

5 days ago · Starting with ESXi 8.0 Update 3e, the ESXi USB driver supports the CDC-NCM protocol for compatibility with HPE Gen12 iLO Virtual NIC and interoperability with HPE Agentless Management (AMS), Integrated Smart Update Tools (iSUT), the iLORest config tool, Intelligent Provisioning, and DPUs.

Apr 10, 2025 · Starting with vSphere 8.0 Update 2b, you can apply a single Solution License to the components of VMware vSphere Foundation and VMware Cloud Foundation. In different screens in the vSphere Client, you might see the license product name multiplied by the number of components for which you use the license.

Jul 12, 2024 · Introducing vSphere 8 Update 3. Read our vSphere 8 Update 3 announcement. This is a quick overview of the main areas of Lifecycle Management in vSphere and their features and new 8 Update 3 features highlighted. vCenter Reduced Downtime.

2 days ago · VMware has resumed offering a free hypervisor. News of the offering emerged in a throwaway line in the Release Notes for version 8.0 Update 3e of the Broadcom business unit's ESXi hypervisor.. Just below the "What's New" section of that document is the statement: "Broadcom makes available the VMware vSphere Hypervisor version 8, an entry-level hypervisor.

6 days ago · Well, this one may have flown under the radar a bit, but on the release notes page of the VMware 8.0U3e release, you will see this blurb on the official release notes for VMware 8.0 U3e: VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 3e Release Notes. “Broadcom makes available the VMware vSphere Hypervisor version 8, an entry-level hypervisor.

Dec 3, 2024 · VMware vSphere 8 Update 3 offers a dedicated memory overcommitment feature for helping balance VM performance with density. But how does the memory management of a vSphere solution compare to competing solutions?

Aug 30, 2022 · VMware vSphere 8, the enterprise workload platform, brings the benefits of cloud to on-premises workloads, supercharges performance through DPUs and GPUs, and accelerates innovation with an enterprise-ready integrated Kubernetes runtime.

VMware vSphere 8 boosts workload performances with advanced GPU acceleration, DPU network offload, and NVIDIA NVSwitch technology, supporting up to 16 GPUs per VM and 32 GPUs in pass-through mode to meet the demands of modern AI/ML and HPC workloads.

VMware vSphere 8 is an enterprise workload engine that combines industry-leading cloud infrastructure technology with DPU- and GPU-based acceleration to boost workload performance.