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If you are aware that vSphere 6.5 and 6.7 will have its end of general support at the same time on Nov 15, 2021. VMware has decide to extend the support for vSphere 6.7 till Oct 15, 2022 as it seems that many customers has just upgraded to version 6.7 and it will take awhile more before everyone can move to the new release of vSphere 6.7. With this change, vSphere 6.5 will remain the same while 6.7 will be ending its general support later. Do note that this does not change the end of support for vSphere Web Client previously mentioned . With vSphere 6.7 general support extension, the vSphere Web Client remain to be end its support in Dec 2020 as Adobe Flash ends its support.

If you have followed, the first web client known as vSphere Web Client that was used to replace the Windows Client (also known as C# Client) is coming to its end of support. Here is the article . As you know that in vSphere 6, the vSphere HTML5 client was introduced and also called vSphere Client or Clarity. As of vSphere 6.7, it has all its feature function on par with vSphere Web Client and on top of that, it does not have a dependency of using Adobe Flash. But why is that a problem? First, it is a dependency as Adobe Flash is not part of any OS and it has to be separately installed. Some customers do not have internet connection would face this challenge. The second, we are able to download and install. However, it need to be constantly patched due to security and there are many security vulnerability of Adobe Flash that many companies are not willing to use it. As Adobe Flash support will end Dec 2020 for all browsers, even though VMware is supporting vSphere 6.5/6.7 till Nov...