Upgrading VM virtual hardware

The virtual machine hardware version or virtual machine compatibility specifies the version of virtual machine hardware that's presented to the virtual machines and the ESXi versions that the virtual machine is then compatible to run on. Updating the virtual machine hardware exposes new features that are available to virtual machines (for example, the ability to provision vmdks up to 62 TB) and ensures that the virtual hardware is optimized to the version of ESXi.

How to do it...

To upgrade the virtual hardware of a virtual machine, use the following steps:

1. Take a snapshot of the virtual machine to ensure that you can fall back to a known good state if the upgrade fails.
2. It's critically...