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## [The VMware Compliance Cliff: What October 2027 Really Means for Your Business](/knowledgebase/blog/2026-06-16-the-vmware-compliance-cliff-what-october-2027-really-means-for-your-business/)

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If your organization still runs VMware vSphere 7 or 8, you are already running against hard regulatory deadlines that carry no grace period. vSphere 7 lost support on October 2, 2025. vSphere 8 follows on October 11, 2027. After those dates, no security patches exist. An unpatched hypervisor is an automatic failure under PCI DSS 4.0, HIPAA, and SOC 2....

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