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VMware vSphere 7.0 vs. vSphere 8.0

This site explains the key differences between vSphere 7.0 and vSphere 8.0. An overview comparison from all vSphere Versions is available here.

vSphere 7.0
vSphere 8.0
Released
April 2020
October 2022
End of Support
April 2025
October 2027
End of Technical Guidance
April 2027
October 2029
Architecture
x86
x86
ARM
Physical CPUs per host
768
896
Physical RAM per host
16 TB
16 TB
vCPU per VM
128
768
vMEM per VM
6 TB
24 TB
VM Hardware Version
17+18+19
20
VMFS Version
5.81 (VMFS5)
6.81 (VMFS6)
5.81 (VMFS5)
6.81 (VMFS6)
Fault Tolerance Support
8 vCPU
128 GB
8 vCPU
128 GB
vCSA Operating System
VMware Photon OS 3.0
VMware Photon OS 3.0
vMotion for Multi-Instance GPUs
YES
YES
vMotion on Intel SIOV
NO
YES
vMMR DRS support
NO
YES
Vendor Device Groups
NO
YES
vSphere HA for PMEM
YES
YES
vSphere Trust Authority
YES
YES
Identity federation with ADFS
YES
YES
Identity federation with Okta
NO
YES
Native Key Provider
YES
YES
AMD SEV-ES
YES
YES
NSX Integration
YES
YES
Green Metrics
NO
YES
Configuration Profiles
NO
YES
Tanzu
Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service
YES
YES
Pod Service
YES
YES
Storage Service
YES
YES
Registry Service
YES
YES
VM Service
YES
YES
Cloud Consumption Interface
NO
YES
Workload Availability Zones
NO
YES
TKG cluster lifecycle management
NO
YES
TKG cluster package management
NO
YES
Custom base OS
NO
YES
Pinniped
NO
YES