Platform Product Compatibility

To support a new release of vSphere, in most cases you should update and recompile your software with a corresponding new release of VDDK. This is because VDDK is continually updated to support new features in vSphere. As of 5.0, the version number of VDDK matches the version number of vSphere.

Since its inception in 2008, VDDK has been backward compatible with virtual platform products such as VMware Workstation, ESXi, and vCenter Server. VMware Fusion was never supported.