VMware vSphere


VMware vSphere is VMware's cloud computing virtualization platform.
vSphere is a VMware cloud computing platform for virtualization. It includes an updated vCenter Configuration Manager, as well as vCenter Application Discovery Manager, and the ability of vMotion to move more than one virtual machine at a time from one host server to another.
On 10 February 2011 VMware released Update 1 for vSphere 4.1 to add support for RHEL 6, RHEL 5.6, SLES 11 SP1 for VMware, Ubuntu 10.10, and Solaris 10 Update 9.
On July 12, 2011, VMware released version 5 of VMware vSphere.
On August 27, 2012, VMware released vSphere 5.1. This extended vSphere to include VMware vSphere Storage Appliance, vSphere Data Protection, vSphere Replication and vShield Endpoint.
September 22, 2013 saw the release of vSphere 5.5.
On May 2014 SAP and VMware announced the availability of SAP HANA for production use on VMware vSphere 5.5.
On February 3, 2015, VMware's CEO Pat Gelsinger announced vSphere 6.0 with many new features and enhancements.
On October 18, 2016, VMware announced vSphere 6.5 focusing on a simplified experience and improving security features.
On April 17, 2018, VMware announced vSphere 6.7 focusing on simple and efficient management at scale, further improved security features, a universal application platform, and seamless hybrid cloud experience.
On October 16th, 2018, VMware announced vSphere 6.7 Update 1. This release is notable for the first fully featured release of the HTML5-based vSphere client.
On April 2nd, 2019, VMware announced vSphere 6.7 Update 2.
On August 13th, 2019, VMware released vSphere 6.7 Update 3.
On March 10th, 2020, VMware announced vSphere 7.0.