Hardware Compatibility Data

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

You can use the com.vmware.esx.hcl.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, call the get() method. To update the local compatibility data with the latest version available from the official VMware source, call the update_Task() method.