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18 Dell EMC OMIVV as a Hardware Support Manager for VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager
Figure 12: Remediation in progress
3.7 vSAN Hardware Compatibility Listing (HCL)
If you have enabled vSAN service on cluster, all the servers within the cluster must maintain compatible
firmware and driver mappings which are certified by VMware. You can find the certified mappings in VMware
Compatibility Guide (VCG).
For more information about the certified vSAN Hardware compatibility matrices that contains required firmware
for specific drivers, see the VMware Compatibility Guide.
For example, the following URL provides supported driver and firmware combination for vSphere as 7.0 version
and Dell EMC as OEM provider:
https://www.vmware.com/resources/compatibility/search.php?deviceCategory=vsanio&details=1&vsan_type=
vsanio&io_partner=23&io_releases=448&vsanio_vsan_type=All%20Flash&page=1&display_interval=10&sort
Column=Partner&sortOrder=Asc
OMIVV acts as a firmware provider to supply firmware for this feature in vSphere Lifecycle Manager.
Until vSphere 7.0, VMware shows firmware versions only for storage controller component. Before remediating,
you can view the HCG and see whether driver and firmware that is selected in the image are vSAN HCL
compliant or not. If it is compliant, then that server component will not be shown in HCG. Only non-compatible
components are shown in HCG.
Ensure that you modify an image with supported driver and firmware mappings before remediation.
Supported driver and firmware mappings are shown in vSAN HCG.
See the following image for non-compatible storage controller component and how supported versions are
shown in vSAN HCG.