Our VMware Support team here at Broadcom is fully committed to helping our customers on their upgrade journeys. With the End of General Support date for VMware vSphere 7 coming on October 2, 2025, many of our customers have been reaching out looking for best practices and playbooks for upgrading. And this time around, we’re not just talking about upgrades from VMware vSphere 7 to VMware vSphere 8. We’ve seen an active uptick in preparation for customer migrations from vSphere 7 to VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0.
We know that planning and implementing upgrades can be stressful, so we figured that a new upgrade toolkit would be welcomed by our customers to help to make the process as smooth as possible by putting together pre-upgrade resources to help ensure success.
To help you on your upgrade journey, whatever that might be, we created a playbook in the form of KB articles to guide you through the end to end process. This wide range of Product Upgrade Knowledge Base (KB) Articles provide easy to follow, step by step guides through the upgrade process, highlighting any areas requiring special attention through each of the following stages of the upgrade process:
- Preparation for upgrade
- Sequence and procedure for upgrading
- Post upgrade required tasks
The suite of Upgrade KBs are listed below and we would encourage customers to engage with this content during their upgrade journeys.
- Upgrade VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 4.x and 5.x
- Upgrade ESXi 7.x to 8.x or Install ESXi
- Upgrade vCenter Server 7.0 to 8.0
- Upgrade to VMware vSAN 8
- Upgrade to VMware Live Site Recovery 9.0
- Upgrade to vSphere Replication 9.0
- Upgrading to Aria Automation 8.18.x
- Upgrading to Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.18
- Upgrading to Aria Operations For Logs 8.18.x
- Upgrading to Aria Operations 8.18.x
- Upgrade Aria Operations for Network From GUI
- Upgrading to VMware Cloud Director 10.6
- Upgrade HCX
- Upgrade NSX
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