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If you create Virtual Machine Version 7.0 Machines ONLY. - YES.<br />
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If you create Virtual Machine Version 8.0 Machines, you will need to convert them using VMware Converter. So NO, without conversion.
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Yes and No.

If you create Virtual Machine Version 7.0 Machines ONLY. - YES.

If you create Virtual Machine Version 8.0 Machines, you will need to convert them using VMware Converter. So NO, without conversion.

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If I have a created a VM on a new ESXi 5 server and I move it to a 4.1 server without any conversion ?<br />
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If I have a created a VM on a new ESXi 5 server and I move it to a 4.1 server without any conversion ?



Is a VMWare ESXi 5 VM backward compatible with ESXi 4.1  ?

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.