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I treat this as an important post as it affects a lot of design today when upgrading to vSphere 7.0 and as well as new deployment. In the release of vSphere 7.0, there are a few things that are removed or deprecated. To name a few obvious ones below: External PSC (removed) vCenter Server for Windows (removed) vSphere Web Client (removed) vCenter Server .next Image based backup (deprecated) And yes, you read it correctly the last one. vCenter Server Image backup. Thanks to Michael White for pointing this out. I beg many of us did not read the release notes. Here I am going to direct you to the release notes of vCenter Server 7.0 release notes . Deprecation of Image-Based Backup and Restore Support for vCenter Server Image-based backup and restore for vCenter Server is deprecated in vCenter Server 7.0 and will not be supported in a future vSphere release. What the above statement in layman terms: the image-based backup is going to sunset in 7.0. Which means version 7.0 will be the last ...

With the release of VMware vSAN 7.0, a few new features are introduced. Some of which are release together with vSphere 7.0. I will list all of them and refer to vSphere 7.0 if there are already mentioned. vSphere Lifecycle Manager (vLCM) The new and shining armor will likely eventually replaced the vSphere Update Manager. This can update beyond just VMware software but include drivers and firmware of the Servers where vSAN sits on. At a start, the below servers are supported: Dell 14G servers Dell MX series HPE 10G servers HPE Synergy vLCM will validated the firmware as per VMware HCL. Native File Services vSAN will provide support NFS v3 and v4. Use case ideal for Cloud Native Applications, use of Block and File storage which previous for file would need to cater to another File Storage solution, and lastly maximize the use of spare capacity. Then main attraction here is the vLCM which will handle all the upgrade and drivers and firmware together where no HCI...