vSphere 8 Update 1 Achieves General Availability
VMware News, Thursday, May 11,2023
vSphere 8 Update 1 was released as Initial Availability (IA) on April 18th. The vCenter component was released straight to General Availability (GA) on the same day, April 18th. As of today, ESXi has also now achieved GA.
Hence, today the vSphere team is delighted to announce that we're switching the vSphere 8 Update 1 designation from IA to GA.
Since the IA was released about three weeks ago there have been a significant number of downloads. From our phone-home telemetry (CEIP), we observed the ESXi IA was installed by the tens of thousands. Considering telemetry only provides a subset of actual deployments (customers are free to opt out), we know that the IA was very widely adopted across our customer base. At that time, zero critical issues were reported.