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My name is Josh Atwell and I've been working in the IT industry exclusively since 2004. I've received my VCAP-DCD, VCAP-DCA, VCP3,4 certifications. I am currently working as a VMware administrator for Cisco.

vTesseract is my personal presence for my thoughts, musings, and technical write-ups involving PowerShell, datacenter virtualization and other technologies I come across daily. The opinions and thoughts on this site are my own and are not endorsed or affiliated by my employer or anyone else. This is done on my own free time and all work is limited based on my time and available resources. Your comments, thoughts, opinions are welcome. Thanks for reading!

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Wed Sep 14

#VMware Virtual Hardware Progression

Ken Schroeder reached out today on Twitter wondering if there was a reference outlining Virtual Hardware progression through VMware’s releases.

I helped him with a search and decided there was limited information so I did a quick compile. Please let me know if I missed anything. After some feedback I’ll make it a little more “polished” and visually effective.

v4
4-Way virtual SMP
64GB Virtual Machine RAM

v7
8-Way virtual SMP
255GB Virtual Machine RAM

New Features:
SAS Devices
IDE Virtual Device
Hot Plug memory and CPU for some Operating Systems
VMDirectPath for VMs
Change Block Tracking (CBT)
VMXNET Gen3

v8
32-Way virtual SMP
1TB Virtual Machine RAM

New Features
Non hardware accelerated 3D Graphics for Aero Support
USB 3.0 Device Support
UEFI Virtual BIOS