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Crowdsourced Lab Hardware for ESXi 9.0 Dashboard

06.17.2025 by William Lam // 1 Comment

For a major new vSphere release, it can be challenging to understand whether your existing hardware will continue to work or if you need to upgrade.

During the development of VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0, I had put together a survey that would crowdsource from internal users who have successfully installed ESXi 9.0, so that it can be used as a reference for the community. We have almost 50 submissions, including details about the hardware platform but the also the different key I/O devices across networking, storage and graphics! I would like to give a big thanks to all the VMware/Broadcom employees who contributed to the initial dataset and I hope to see this grow as our users start to play with VCF 9.0 in their lab envionments

You can view the dashboard results by visiting: https://lamw.github.io/community-lab-hardware-for-esxi9/

If you would like to contribute your own system that has NOT already been submitted, please fill out this form here: https://forms.gle/dXbzpTz4JpwP8bXr7

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Categories // VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere 9.0 Tags // ESXi 9.0, VCF 9.0, vSphere 9.0

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  1. *protectedMatt Mabis says

    06/18/2025 at 6:06 am

    Hey William, a Suggestion i would make for your community hardware list, is if possible they show the CPU used in the hardware testing, i only see the motherboard and if they forced the install but some motherboards depending on the chip used could be why they forced the install (i.e. skylake (forced) vs cascade lake (not forced)) and then it would be nice to see if things like older CPU sets work like Xeon V3/4 etc... Just a humble suggestion.

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