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name: vmwaresolutions-vs_bom
title: BOM for VCF for Classic - Flexible
description: As of 17 July 2025, new automated installations of Red Hat® OpenShift® for VMware® are no longer available for new or existing deployments of VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic - Automated instances. You can still use or delete your existing Red Hat OpenShift for VMware automated installations until 16 July 2026. The service will no longer be available from 17 July 2026.
last-updated: 2026-06-25
---

> ## Documentation Index
> The table of contents for this documentation set is at https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?format=markdown
> The index for all IBM Cloud docs is at: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use these files to discover more information as needed.

# BOM for VCF for Classic - Flexible
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As of 17 July 2025, new automated installations of Red Hat® OpenShift® for VMware® are no longer available for new or existing deployments of VMware Cloud Foundation for Classic - Automated instances. You can still use or delete your existing Red Hat OpenShift for VMware automated installations until 16 July 2026. The service will no longer be available from 17 July 2026.
{: deprecated}

The following table details the Bill of Materials (BOM) information for VMware vSphere® software components.

| Manufacturer | Component | Version |
| :------------ | :-------------- | :------- |
| VMware® by Broadcom | vSphere ESXi™ | ESXi 8.0 Update 3i (build 25205845)[^esxi80] or \n ESXi 7.0 Update 3w (build 24784741)[^esxi70] |
{: caption="BOM for Flexible instances" caption-side="bottom"}

[^esxi80]: Applicable to vSphere 8

[^esxi70]: Applicable to vSphere 7

## Related links
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* [Build numbers and versions of VMware ESXi and ESX](https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?legacyId=2143832){: external}
* [VCF for Classic - Flexible overview](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-vs_vsphereoverview&format=markdown)
* [Planning for Flexible instances](https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/vmwaresolutions?topic=vmwaresolutions-vs_planning&format=markdown)