

ESXi needs to be installed first on a physical machine to provide at least one host for the vCenter virtual appliance to be deployed to. You can track the latest releases and build numbers in this KB article.ĮSXi is the market leading hypervisor, able to abstract and pool compute resources across commodity hardware, and implement granular based controls and automation. The current version at the time of writing is vSphere 7.0 Update 1c. vSphere 7.0 was initially released in June 2020, and followed up with vSphere 7.0 Update 1 in October 2020. This opening post in a new lab series provides a walkthrough for installing the latest iteration of vSphere 7.0 bringing cloud-native workloads to the data centre with embedded Kubernetes and Tanzu.
