Fly fishing is an art for life

The Honest Answer: It is end-of-life (EOL). No new security patches.

However... For an air-gapped lab or a legacy production environment that never touches the public internet, it is incredibly stable. The build number 19195700 is the last revision of 6.7. It contains 3+ years of bug fixes.

Exclusive Security Tip: If you must connect it to the internet:


Export-EsxImageProfile -ImageProfile "ExclusiveCustom" -ExportToIso -FilePath "C:\ESXi-6.7U3-Exclusive.iso"

This gives you a 100% legal, exclusive ISO with drivers for unsupported NICs.


Add-EsxSoftwareDepot .\net55-r8168-8.045a-non-offline-depot.zip