HERE you can check the official information from VMware. If still have any Windows vCenter Server in our environment, is time to start planning to migrate to a vCenter Linux Appliance. So the EOL(End of Life) of Windows vCenter Server is not a bad thing, but an improvement of the vCenter itself and is management. With the vCenter Appliance, we only need to update the vCenter Appliance (will automatic apply OS updates and also VMware updates) and the DB (if we have an external Oracle DB and not an embedded vPostgres DB). This means 4 VMs to support, to manage, to apply security updates, patches, plus the vCenter update itself and also Windows Licenses. We will get rid of Windows VMs and also a need for a mandatory SQL/Oracle database.įor large environments and a proper implementation Windows vCenter always would need 4 Windows VMs (vCenter, vCenter Services, VMware Update Manager and DB. So removing Windows vCenter, it’s not a bad thing. Since now is embedded in the vCenter Appliance with the DB vPostgres and can also support external Oracle Databases.

As been improved from a Windows Server(physical or Virtual) with a need a DB(SQL or Oracle back then), to a VMware Appliance that no longer requires a second server for the DB. VCenter was and still is, in my opinion, the best Virtual Management tool. The vCenter Linux version(appliance) only arrive in August 2012 with the vCenter version 5.0. vCenter 4.0 for Windows did survive for four years, until 2013 when was abandoned in the version 4.1 U3a. Before was called VirtualCenter v2.5 that last for five years and was discontinued in 2012 with the version 2.5 U6b. The first version of Windows vCenter is from May 2009 and was the version 4.0. Consequentially vSphere Web Client will not be included in the next vSphere releases. VMware will not launch any more versions or updates after the last one. So next version of vSphere is the last for Windows vCenter Server and also vSphere Web Client. VMware announced this week that will discontinue the Windows vCenter version in the next vSphere release (maybe vCenter 7.0 or 6.6 don’t know the next numbered release) and also plan to discontinued vSphere Web Client. VMware announced Windows vCenter and vSphere Web client EOL (End of Life).

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