If your vCenter Server and Update Manager have connection to the Internet, you can directly import vendor-specific firmware and drivers to update the servers in your vSAN cluster. Alternatively you can import vendor-specific firmware manually.

Prerequisites

  • Download the vendor-specific firmware tool for the servers in your vSAN cluster.

Procedure

  1. In the vSphere Client, select Hosts and Clusters and select a vSAN cluster from the inventory.
  2. Select the Updates tab.
    You are in the Update Manager compliance view.
  3. Select Host Updates.
  4. Under Attached Baselines and Baseline Groups, select the vSAN cluster group baseline and click Import Firmware.
    The Import Firmware dialog box appears.
  5. Depending whether your vCenter Server system is connected to the Internet, you can perform on of the following tasks.
    Option Description
    Download from Default Depot

    If your vCenter Server is connected to the Internet, you can download firmware directly.

    1. From the drop-down menu, select and read the individual end-user licence agreements.
      Note: The Import Firmware dialog box displays multiple end-user licence agreements, if you are importing firmware for multiple hosts in the vSAN cluster.
    2. Accept all the end-user license agreements, by selecting the check box under the EULA.
    3. Click Import.
    Enter your own location

    If your vCenter Server is not connected to the Internet, you must upload firmware manually.

    1. Click Browse and select the firmware package.
      Note: The file you upload must be compliant with the Hardware Compatibility List (HCL).
    2. Click Close.

Results

Update Manager verifies and imports the selected firmware packages.