Like we all know VMware is always committed to bringing great products to market that meet our customers’ short and long term needs. Unlike other vendors In these challenging times, Understanding the current business environment has created a climate of uncertainty leading to challenges for IT operations and strategic planning. While these customers look to resume regular business at some point shortly, they need stable, non-disruptive operations now to help with that transition to a desired future state.

To help customers with that transition, VMWare extending the general support period for vSphere 6.7. Originally, vSphere 6.7 was scheduled to reach EoGS (End of General Support) on November 15, 2021, and now that date is getting extended by 11 months, to October 15, 2022. However the original EoTG (End of Technical Guidance) date of November 15, 2023, still applies for vSphere 6.7. There is no change in supportability dates for any other vSphere release.

vSphere 7, released earlier this year, is the biggest enhancement to ESX in over a decade. You may refer the 7 Reasons to Upgrade to vSphere 7 – Series blog here and vSphere 7 – Why Upgrade? Here’s What Beta Participants Think! blog here to get some additional insight on the same subject.

Once you decided to proceed with the upgrade you may refer, How to upgrade your vCenter 6.7 to vCenter 7.0 article here and Upgrade ESXi 6.7 to ESXi 7.0 hosts using Lifecycle Manager article here