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
- In the vSphere Client, select Hosts and Clusters and select a vSAN cluster from the inventory.
- Select the Updates tab.
You are in the Update Manager compliance view.
- Select Host Updates.
- Under Attached Baselines and Baseline Groups, select the vSAN cluster group baseline and click Import Firmware.
The
Import Firmware dialog box appears.
- 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.
- 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.
- Accept all the end-user license agreements, by selecting the check box under the EULA.
- Click Import.
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Enter your own location |
If your vCenter Server is not connected to the Internet, you must upload firmware manually.
- Click Browse and select the firmware package.
Note: The file you upload must be compliant with the Hardware Compatibility List (HCL).
- Click Close.
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Results
Update Manager verifies and imports the selected firmware packages.