Windows 2003 Guest OS

[StewartH]

I can see that 2003 support level is deprecated and I am not asking about building new 2003 servers :-)

A customer has some old 2003 VMs running on ESX 6.5. The hardware is aging so we need to migrate (cold likely) these VMs to new servers running v7 or v8.

My questions are will they run? Is there VMware specific support for the VMs on the newer platforms? I will probably need to upgrade the Hardware Compatibility of the VMs - what is the maximum version (if any)? What about VM Tools?

They are currently running Tools build 11269 (11.0.5) and Hardware Compatibility v4 (ESX/ESXi 3.5 and later).

Any advice, gotchas and warnings also helpful thanks.

[a_p_]

You can find most information in the VMware HCL

What I'm not sure about is which Hardware Compatibilty level Windows 2003 will work with. Be sure to have a backup/snapshot in case something does not work as expected after modifying settings.

André

[Rajeev Kumar]

https://compatibilityguide.broadcom.com/search?program=software&persona=live&column=osVendors&order=asc&keyword=windows&productName=%5BESXi%5D&activePage=1&activeDelta=20

All answer

[RajeevVCP4]

Hi

You will get all answer by opening this link if any doubt please let me know

https://compatibilityguide.broadcom.com/search?program=software&persona=live&column=osVendors&order=asc&productName=%5BESXi%5D&osFamilyName=%5BWindows+Server+2003%5D&activePage=1&activeDelta=20