During VMworld Europe in Barcelona, VMware has announced that vSphere 6.5 will be available in Q4 2016. Today they made the bits available for everyone to download. VMware vSphere 6.5 is now GA.
VMware vSphere 6.5 Release Notes and Download Links
- VMware vCenter Server 6.5 [Release Notes] [Download]
- VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 6.5.0 [Release Notes] [Download]
- VMware Virtual SAN Witness Appliance 6.5 [Download]
- VMware vRealize Log Insight 4.0.0 for vCenter [Release Notes] [Download]
- VMware vSphere Data Protection 6.1.3 [Release Notes] [Download]
- VMware vSphere Replication 6.5 [Release Notes] [Download]
- VMware vSphere Management Assistant 6.5 (vMA) [Download]
- VMware vRealize Log Insight 4.0.0 [Release Notes] [Download]
- VMware vRealize Log Insight 4.0.0 for NSX [Release Notes] [Download]
- VMware vRealize Operations Manager 6.4 [Release Notes] [Download]
- VMware Guest SDK 10.1.0 [Download]
- VMware Open Virtualization Format Tool 4.2.0 [Download]
- VMware Virtual SAN Management SDK 6.5.0 [Download]
- VMware vSphere Automation SDK 6.5 for Java [Download]
- VMware vSphere Automation SDK 6.5 for Perl [Download]
- VMware vSphere Automation SDK 6.5 for Python [Download]
- VMware vSphere Automation SDK 6.5 for REST [Download]
- VMware vSphere Automation SDK 6.5 for Ruby [Download]
- VMware vSphere Automation SDK 6.5 for .NET [Download]
- VMware vSphere Automation Java SDK 6.5 for Workbench IS [Download]
- VMware vSphere Command Line Interface 6.5 [Download]
- VMware vSphere Perl SDK 6.5 [Download]
- VMware vSphere Virtual Disk Development Kit 6.5 [Download]
- VMware vSphere Web Client SDK 6.5 [Download]
- VMware Workbench IS 3.5.7 [Download]
- vSphere Automation SDK for .NET 6.5 [Download]
- VMware vSphere Management Java SDK 6.5 for Workbench IS [Download]
- VMware vSphere Management SDK 6.5 [Download]
- VMware vSphere SNMP MIBs 6.5 [Download]
20 month development time
Since vSphere 6.0 VMware started to extend major release cycles. However, vSphere 6.0 still had some serious issues. With 614 days, the development time of vSphere 6.5 was over 20 month. vSphere 6.5 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 |
| 6.5 | 2016-11-15 | 614 |
| 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
I try to download VSphere 6.5 following your link.
At Last on Vmware site i come advised about that:
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Please tell me how to proceed. I don't want version which expire (damiano.pensa@edmdata.it)
Thanks