10+ Vm Hardware Version Compatibility US. When you create a vm, you can choose. The hardware version indicates which virtual hardware features that the virtual machine supports select the virtual machine and select vm > manage > change hardware compatibility.
When you update the configuration version, you change the file structure that is used to store the virtual machines.
In esxi/esx, server, lab manager, or gsx, depending on the version in. Create a new virtual machine with the required hardware version and attach the existing disk from the virtual machine. This post talks about vmware virtual machine hardware versions and compatibility with esx/esxi servers in simple table format and also some of the hardware features available with respective hardware versions. What we call the hardware version.