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title: "vCenter 6.5 Update 1"
canonical: "https://www.virtcloudrocks.com/space/vblog01/blog/721264/vCenter%206.5%20Update%201"
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Below VMware article provides detailed information for the vCenter 6.5 U1 (release notes)

[https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/rn/vsphere-vcenter-server-651-release-notes.html](https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.5/rn/vsphere-vcenter-server-651-release-notes.html) 

## What's New

- You can run the vCenter Server Appliance GUI and CLI installers on Microsoft Windows 2012 x64 bit, Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 x64 bit, Microsoft Windows 2016 x64 bit, and macOS Sierra.
- TcServer is now replaced with Tomcat 8.5.8.
- vCenter Server 6.5 Update 1 supports Guest OS customization for Ubuntu 17.04 OS.
- VMware vSphere Storage APIs - Data Protection (VADP) now also support Windows Server 2016 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 7.3 as operating systems to perform proxy backup. This is in addition to the backup proxy operating systems already supported with VADP and VDDK 6.5.
- If you prefer to use Update Manager for the upgrade of ESXi and vSAN stack, you can now enable vSAN software upgrades through integration with vSphere Update Manager. This provides a unified and common workflow. For more information see the vSphere Update Manager Installation and Administration Guide.
- External database support: vCenter Server now supports Microsoft SQL Server 2016, Microsoft SQL Server 2016 SP1, and Microsoft SQL Server 2014 SP2.
- The HTML5-based vSphere Client now supports most content library and OVF deployment operations, as well as operations on roles and permissions, basic customization of the Guest OS, and additions to virtual machine, host, datastore, and network management.
- The HTML5-based vSphere Client now supports French, Swiss-French, and Swiss-German keyboards. For known issues related to the keyboard mapping, see [https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2149039](https://kb.vmware.com/kb/2149039).
- Linked vCenter Server instances now support up to 15 vCenter Server instances, 5,000 ESXi hosts, 50,000 powered on virtual machines, and 70,000 registered virtual machines. For more information, see the vSphere Configuration Maximums.
- During the command-line installation, upgrade and migration processes of vCenter Server Appliance, a structured status file is provided along with installer logs.
- Updates to JRE package. The Oracle (Sun) JRE package is updated to version 1.8.0_131.

## Resolved issues (grouped)

- Backup and Restore Issues
- CLI Issues
- Guest OS Issues
- Installation, Upgrade, and Migration Issues
- Miscellaneous Issues
- Networking Issues
- Security Issues
- Server Configuration Issues
- Storage Issues
- Tools Issues
- vCenter Server, vSphere Web Client, and vSphere Client Issues
- Virtual Machine Management Issues
- vMotion and Storage vMotion Issues