23+ Vm Hardware Version 18 UK. The hardware version of a virtual machine (vm) reflects the virtual hardware features and functions that the vm supports, which in turn relate to the hardware available on a physical host. Upgrading a virtual machine to the latest hardware version is the physical equivalent of swapping the drive out of one system and placing it into a new one.
To upgrade the virtual hardware version, the virtual machine has to be stopped.
In working with different versions of vsphere with veeam, you may run into the error with veeam restore vm hardware version is not a vm that was created in site a was at the latest hardware version for vsphere 6.5 (version 13). So now you can easily upgrade vmware hardware versions. It is necessary to go for vm hardware upgrade after esxi upgrades so to use the full functionality of the supported features. Are the new hardware versions more stable?