I’ve always wondered why customers sit on those older versions so long instead of upgrading and gaining the new features and benefits that newer releases offer. But there is still a very large percent using 6.x, especially on the host side. So customers are finally starting to get off 6.x as it nears it’s end of support date next week. We can see as of today that 41% of customers are running vCenter 6.x and 52% are running ESXi 6.x. If we contrast this to today here’s what the numbers look like. April 2022 vCenter versionįrom these numbers we can see that about 6 months ago 56% of customers were running vCenter 6.x and 67% are running ESXi 6.x bringing the majority of the VMware customer base on the older major release of vSphere. Below is a look at that data from recent time periods to show what versions of vCenter and ESXi customers are running. We track the vSphere versions that customers use from the telemetry data of our storage arrays, VMware also tracks this as well via their vCenter analytics. Now lets take a look at some version stats. In this article I’ll take a look at some adoption stats and try to answer the question of why so many customers are still on vSphere 6.x.įirst let’s look at the key timeline milestones for the major vSphere releases. Despite this a large percentage of the VMware customer base is still running 6.x versions even with them going end of support very soon. VSphere 6.5 and 6.7 is set to go end of support next week and vSphere 7.0 has been released for over 2 and a half years now while vSphere 8.0 is due out next week.
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