Hardware Compatibility Data

The hardware compatibility data contains information about the compatibility between ESXi hosts and ESXi versions.

You can use the CompatibilityData service to retrieve information about the compatibility data or to update the local compatibility data on a vCenter Server instance. To retrieve information about the compatibility data stored on your vCenter Server instance, use the GET https://<vcenter_ip_address_or_fqdn>/api/esx/hcl/compatibility-data/status request. To update the local compatibility data with the latest version available from the official VMware source, use the POST https://<vcenter_ip_address_or_fqdn>/api/esx/hcl/compatibility-data?action=download&vmw-task=true request.