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13 Dell EMC OMIVV as a Hardware Support Manager for VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager
3. Select relevant HSP which is relevant for the selected cluster.
To identify the HSP associated to the selected cluster, see the description present in the HSP.
Figure 5: Select HSP and view description.
After you select OMIVV as HSM, all the available HSPs are displayed in the firmware and driver addon section
in vSphere Lifecycle Manager image.
When you click the HSP, the supported ESXi version is displayed in the Supported ESXi Versions section.
If you select the unsupported ESXi version as base image, you cannot save the image with selected HSP.
Select relevant base image and HSP while saving an image.
For example, OMIVV 5.1 supports only base image having ESXi 7.0. If you select the base image as ESXi 7.0
U1, you cannot save the HSP. To resolve this issue, use the supported version of OMIVV.
After you select OMIVV as HSM, all the available HSPs are displayed in the firmware and driver addon section
in vSphere Lifecycle Manager image.
Each HSP contains version number which indicates the changes available in the respective cluster profile. The
version is incremented when the firmware content is modified.
As of now, you cannot view the HSP version with respect to cluster profile in OMIVV page.
4. After selecting the HSP, save the image.
vSphere Lifecycle manager computes drift for all the hosts against image, add on, and HSP.