Remove the Virtual Machine from vCenter inventory and register again. Save the.vmx file using below command Press ESC and type:wq 6. You can verify the current Virtual Machine hardware version from Virtual Machine configuration file (.vmx) cat VC-1.vmx grep virtualHW.version 3.Įdit the Virtual machine configuration file (Vmname.vmx) file using VI editor Vi VC-1.vmx 4.Ĭhange the Value virtualHW.version in the.vmx file from 10 to 9 to downgrade the VM hardware versio form vmx-10 to vmx-9. Power off the Virtual Machine before editing the Configuration file of virtual machine 2. Procedure To Downgrade Virtual Machine Hardware Version by editing the.VMX file: 1. Simply editing the.VMX file of the virtual machine to downgrade the VM hardware version. Revert to previous snapshot, if you have taken snapshot before the VM hardware version upgrade 3.Ĭreate a New Virtual Machine with older hardware version and attach the disks from the existing Virtual Machine 4. Use VMware Converter and perform V2V migration to downgrade the Virtual Machine Hardware version 2. Use the vSphere Web client to edit the settings of this virtual machine Methods to achieve Downgrade of Virtual Machine Hardware Version 1. You cannot use the vSphere Client to edit the settings of virtual machines of version 10 or higher. You may receive the below warning if you try to edit Virtual Machine properties, if Hardware version is 10 or more. In that situation, you may need to downgrade the Virtual Machine hardware version from 10 to 9 to get that managed by vSphere windows client However,You will be able to manage to perform almost most of tasks using PowerCLI scripting if you are familiar with powerCLi scripting. Lets say your vSphere web client is crashed, You will not be able to edit the settings of Virtual Machine Hardware version 10 with vSphere client.
So you may downgrade the Virtual Machine hardware version to compatible with your legacy guest OS.Īnother 3rd reason which you may not face frequently but i faced the issue. Virtual Machine with Legacy operating system does not support the latest hardware devices supported by HW version 10.
You are migrating your Virtual Machine with Vmx-10 (VM Hardware version 10) from ESXi 5.5 host to ESXi 5.1 host or previous versions. You may ask me the question why do you want me to downgrade the Virtual Machine Hardware Version.ĭowngrading Virtual Machine Hardware version may required if you have come across one of the below situation: 1. Vmx J-Vmx-14.1R1.10-Domestic License Is RequiredĪ Meraki cloud-management license is required and available in 1, 3, or 5 year options.
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