vSphere 8 has a new release model to quantify the adoption
As you probably know by now, vSphere 8 was announced during VMware Explore US 2022 and brought a plethora of new features and improvements. You can find out more about them in our blogs part 1 and part 2
As far back as I remember, new versions have always been looked down on and avoided. Microsoft Windows XP was no good until Service Pack 1, then 2 and 3. Administrators of virtual environments have all avoided GA versions as they would be crippled with bugs of any sort. I even used to have a boss who would avoid any significant vSphere version in x.0, so we went from vSphere 5.5 Update 3 to vSphere 6.5 Update 1 (because GA is no good).
The release cycles over at VMware have been a topic of discussion in the last few years when vSphere 7.0 was subjected to a cadence of 1 major release every six months. While it brought new features quicker, many suspected that less effort was put into testing and ensuring platform stability after VMware had to deprecate buggy versions that would cause production issues. The bigger one was the release of vSphere 7.0 Update 3 which brought purple screens of deaths to many users in specific circumstances.
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