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12 Dell EMC OMIVV as a Hardware Support Manager for VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager
Once the cluster profile associated with firmware repository, you must associate this cluster profile to
the cluster to manage the firmware baseline.
In this way, cluster profile becomes HSP for an associated cluster. You can have single cluster profile
for multiple clusters. The cluster profiles are called as HSPs in the vSphere Lifecycle Manager
context. For more information about cluster profile creation, see OMIVV 5.1 user guide
.
3.3 Associate OMIVV as HSM in vSphere Lifecycle Manager image
Ensure that you have all the prerequisites that are mentioned in the Prerequisites to use OMIVV as HSM in
vSphere Lifecycle Manager section. If you fail to complete any of the prerequisites, you may not be able to
create or edit an image to include firmware.
1. Go to vSphere Lifecycle Manager.
2. Create or edit the cluster image.
You can see Dell EMC HSM as DellEMC OMIVV.
Figure 4:Select DellEMC OMIVV as HSM
After you select the Dell EMC OMIVV, all the HSPs (called cluster profile in OMIVV) are displayed.