Windows 10 is supported in vSphere 5.5 Update 3b and vSphere 6.0 and above for Unidesk environments

Windows 10 is supported in vSphere 5.5 Update 3b and vSphere 6.0 and above for Unidesk environments

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Windows 10 is supported in vSphere 5.5 Update 3b and vSphere 6.0 and above for Unidesk environments

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vSphere/ESX 5.5 updates 1 and 2 do not have support for true Windows 10 VMs. VMware recommends you create a Windows 8 VM and then install Windows 10 in it.  Unidesk does not support that kind of hybrid approach.  Unidesk will let you import the OS layer from such a machine, but when we go to create a Windows 10 desktop or IM, we try to create a proper Windows 10 VM, which is not available on the host. The task will fail with an error from vSphere when trying to create a VM.

The virtual infrastructure failed to create a virtual machine. Error is: Error received from VMWare while waiting for requested data.
FaultType: InvalidArgument
Message: A specified parameter was not correct.

You need to upgrade to a version of vSphere that explicitly supports Windows 10 VMs. 

While VMware will provide support for Windows 10 as a guest OS on a VM on 5.5 (any update), the VM will always have to be created as a Windows 8 machine. Only 6.0 and 6.0 u1 actually let you select Windows 10.

 

From VMware:

During the guest OS configuration process, when selecting the Guest OS, Windows 10 selections are available for VMware vSphere 6.0, VMware Workstation 11, VMware Fusion 7 and later releases. For VMware vSphere 5.5, if a Windows 10 option is not available, select Windows 8.