Users Guide

Manage firmware and driver repositories using

repository profile

Repository profile

A repository profile enables you to create and manage driver or firmware repositories.

You can use the firmware and driver repository profiles to:

• Update firmware of hosts

• Update driver for hosts that are part of vSAN clusters.

• Create cluster profile and baseline the clusters.

The default OMIVV firmware catalogs are:

• Dell EMC Default Catalog: A factory-created firmware repository profile that uses Dell EMC Online catalog to get the latest

firmware information. If the appliance does not have an Internet connection, modify this repository to point to a local CIFS, or NFS, or

HTTP, or HTTPs based shares. For more information about modifying this catalog, see Edit or customize Dell Default Catalog.

You can select Dell EMC Default Catalog as the default catalog to update the firmware of vSphere hosts which are not associated

with any cluster profile.

• Validated MX Stack Catalog: A factory-created firmware repository profile that uses the Dell EMC online catalog to get the

validated firmware information for MX chassis and its corresponding sleds. For more information about modifying this catalog, see Edit

Validated MX Stack Catalog. For more information about the Validated MX Stack catalog, see the technical white paper available at

MX7000 Firmware Update.

NOTE:

You cannot use Dell EMC Default Catalog and Validated MX Stack Catalog repository profiles to baseline the

vSAN clusters.

Create repository profile

1. On the OMIVV home page, click Compliance & Deployment > Profiles > Repository Profile.

2. On the Repository Profile page of the wizard, read the instructions, and then click GET STARTED.

3. On the Profile Name and Description page, enter profile name and description. The description field is optional and limited to 255

characters.

4. Click NEXT.

The Profile Settings page is displayed.

5. On the Profile Settings page, select Firmware or Driver.

The following are applicable for driver repository profile:

• Driver repository profile can have a maximum of 10 drivers. If more files are present, the selection of driver is random.

• Only offline driver bundles (.zip files) are used.

• Download and extract the offline driver bundles ( .zip files) and save to the shared location by providing the full path of the shared

location. OMIVV automatically creates the catalog inside the OMIVV appliance. Driver bundles are available at https://

my.vmware.com/web/vmware/downloads

• OMIVV requires write access to the CIFS or NFS.

• Files within the subfolders are ignored.

• Files exceeding 10-MB sizes are ignored.

• Driver repository is applicable only for vSAN clusters.

6. In the Repository Share Location area, perform the following tasks:

a) Enter the repository share location (NFS or CIFS).

b) For CIFS, enter the credentials.

OMIVV supports only Server Message Block (SMB) version 1.0 and SMB version 2.0 based CIFS shares.

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