Vmware Compatibility — Hp Proliant Dl360 Gen9

Recommend option 3 or 4. Cannot sign off on option 1 or 2 for production.

A Reddit thread from six months ago. Title: “Running ESXi 8 on DL360 Gen9 – success?” The top comment: “Works fine for a homelab. Don’t do this in production unless you hate sleeping.” hp proliant dl360 gen9 vmware compatibility

1. Run vSphere 6.7 (end of support 2022) – security risk, compliance fail. 2. Run vSphere 7.0 (ends 2025) – possible but driver instability reported on the P440ar controller. 3. Return the Gen9s, pay restocking, buy Gen10s – extra $12k, but supported until 2029. 4. Use the Gen9s for non-production (dev/test, backup target) and buy new hosts for prod. Recommend option 3 or 4

The words hit him like a cold draft from a failed CRAC unit. Not listed. That didn’t mean “it won’t boot.” It meant “when it panics at 2 AM, VMware support will smile politely and point to this screen.” It meant the HBA driver might load, but the NVMe namespace might stutter. It meant the agent for the iLO management might fail to report a failing power supply. Title: “Running ESXi 8 on DL360 Gen9 – success

The HP support matrix. It confirmed the Gen9’s last supported vSphere version was 6.7 U3—end of general support 2022.

And in the quiet hum of the data center, the Gen9s—unsupported, unloved, but flawlessly stable in their second life—backed up another night’s work without a single purple screen.