vSphere: Downgrading Guest ‘Hardware Version’
KB ID 0001458 Problem I always assumed this was either not possible, (without using VMware converter,) or at least very difficult. I downgraded one of my test ESX boxes from 6.5 to 5.5 this week, and needed to lower the hardware versions on some of my VMs accordingly. Solution Connect to the host ESX server via SSH, then navigate to the VMFS volumes; cd /vmfs/volumes Change directory so you are in the right ‘datastore’,...