ESXi is a type 1 hypervisor and part of VMware’s vSphere, which helps IT teams to more efficiently manage their available hardware resources. In vSphere, all virtual machines are installed on ESXi servers.
VMware’s lifecycle policy for all vSphere products, including ESXi, offers 7 years of support, divided into 5 years of general support and 2 years of technical guidance. For the purpose of this report, we will consider a product as end-of-life when the 5 years of general support end, as the services offered during the 2 years of technical guidance are not sufficient for all users.
You can read more about the VMware ESXi lifecycle in our VMware ESXi end-of-life blog post.
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Select Distinct Top 1000000 tblAssets.AssetID, tblAssets.AssetName, tblAssets.Domain, tsysAssetTypes.AssetTypename As AssetType, tsysAssetTypes.AssetTypeIcon10 As icon, tblAssets.IPAddress, tsysIPLocations.IPLocation, tblAssetCustom.Manufacturer, tblAssetCustom.Model, tblAssets.Version, tblassets.BuildNumber, subquery1.EOLDate As 'End of General Support', subquery1.EOTGDate As 'End of Technical Guidance', Case When GetDate() < subquery1.EOLDate Then Cast(DateDiff(DAY, GetDate(), subquery1.EOLDate) As NVARCHAR) + ' days remaining' When GetDate() > subquery1.EOLDate Then 'EOL' End As [EOL Days Remaining], tblAssets.Lastseen, tblAssets.Lasttried, Case When GetDate() > subquery1.EOLDate Then '#ffadad' When GetDate() >= DateAdd(month, -1, subquery1.EOLDate) Then '#ffd152' When GetDate() < subquery1.EOLDate Then '#d4f4be' Else '' End As backgroundcolor From tblAssets Inner Join tblAssetCustom On tblAssets.AssetID = tblAssetCustom.AssetID Inner Join tsysAssetTypes On tsysAssetTypes.AssetType = tblAssets.Assettype Inner Join tsysIPLocations On tsysIPLocations.LocationID = tblAssets.LocationID Inner Join tblState On tblState.State = tblAssetCustom.State Left Join tsysOS On tsysOS.OScode = tblAssets.OScode Left Join (Select Case When tblassets.Version Like '9.%' Then 'N/A' When tblassets.Version Like '8.%' Then '2027-10-11' When tblassets.Version Like '7.%' Then '2025-10-02' When tblassets.Version Like '6.7%' Then '2022-10-15' When tblassets.Version Like '6.5%' Then '2022-10-15' When tblassets.Version Like '6.0%' Then '2020-03-12' When tblassets.Version Like '5.5%' Then '2018-09-19' When tblassets.Version Like '5.%' Then '2016-08-24' When tblassets.Version Like '4.%' Then '2014-05-21' End As EOLDate, Case When tblassets.Version Like '9.%' Then 'N/A' When tblassets.Version Like '8.%' Then 'N/A' When tblassets.Version Like '7.%' Then '2027-04-02' When tblassets.Version Like '6.7%' Then '2023-11-15' When tblassets.Version Like '6.5%' Then '2023-11-15' When tblassets.Version Like '6.0%' Then '2022-03-12' When tblassets.Version Like '5.5%' Then '2020-09-19' When tblassets.Version Like '5.%' Then '2018-08-24' When tblassets.Version Like '4.%' Then '2016-05-21' End As EOTGDate, tblassets.AssetID From tblassets) As subquery1 On subquery1.AssetID = tblAssets.AssetID Where tsysAssetTypes.Assettypename = 'ESXi server' Order by version
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