Good morning,
I have some questions regarding hardware version and VM Tools, can somebody help? Thank you in advance.
1. Is the OVF/OVA file virtual machine hardware version related? Do the OVF/OVA files exported from vSphere contain the virtual hardware version information ?
2. Consider i have a VM in vSphere 6.0 platform with hardware version 11 and the latest VM Tools(came with ESXi 6.0 U2), can i export it to a OVA file, then import it to vSphere 5.1 platform ? If can, what hardware version of the target VM will be ?
3. Can high version vmtools running with lower vSphere platform? For example, i have a VM with hardware version 11 and the latest VM Tools (ESXi 6 U2), later i move the VM to ESXi 5.1, should i downgrade the vmware tools ? Is there any compatibility issue ?