Upgrading VM hardware
Another useful feature of VUM is the option to automate and schedule the upgrade of VM hardware version. VM with an outdated hardware version cannot take advantage of new features introduced in the latest VMware vSphere release. VUM allows admins to easily identify VM that doesn't have a current hardware version and upgrade it automatically.
VUM comes with a predefined VM hardware baseline you can't change or delete but you should use to upgrade the VM hardware to the current version (vSphere 6.5 introduces hardware version 13).
Hardware upgrades can be performed only while the VM is powered off. If you plan a hardware upgrade of your VM, you should consider that this process will cause downtime.
The hardware upgrade ...
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