Today VMware has made the bits available for everyone to download.
Updated: ESXi Release and Build Number History
Updated: VMware Product Latest Version
VMware vSphere 6.0 Download
- VMware ESXi 6.0.0
- VMware vCenter Server 6.0.0
- VMware vCenter Operations Manager Foundation 5.8.5
- VMware vSphere Replication 6.0
- VMware vSphere Data Protection 6.0
- VMware vSphere Big Data Extensions 2.1.0
- VMware vRealize Orchestrator Appliance 6.0.1
Longest releace cycle since vSphere 4.0
With 536 days, the ever shortening product release cycles have been interrupted. vSphere 6.0 had a long closed and open beta phase to hunt for bugs. Let's hope for smooth upgrades in the next couple of weeks.
| ESX | Release Date | Days since prior release |
| 6.0 | 2015-03-12 | 536 |
| 5.5 | 2013-09-22 | 376 |
| 5.1 | 2012-09-11 | 384 |
| 5.0 | 2011-08-24 | 407 |
| 4.1 | 2010-07-13 | 418 |
| 4.0 | 2009-05-21 | 456 |
| 3.5 | 2008-02-20 | 615 |
| 3.0 | 2006-06-15 | 563 |
| 2.5 | 2004-11-29 | 244 |
| 2.1 | 2004-03-30 | 253 |
| 2.0 | 2003-07-21 | 434 |
| 1.5 | 2002-05-13 | 416 |
| 1.0 | 2001-03-23 |
VMware ESX History Diagram
Great news!
Hope they will stick to a free licence model.
I also hope that the upgrade is easy and will run on my NUC i5 :roll:
I could NOT upgrade my USB-Installation on Intel Nuc i3.
There came up an error like "/vmfs..../..." is not empty.
I had to reinstall.
Thanks for the info ! I guess you are the first one to update on blog .... :grin: :wink: