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27 Dell EMC OMIVV as a Hardware Support Manager for VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager
5 Conclusion
Since the past several releases, OMIVV has been offering ability to baseline clusters in the vCenter against
drivers, firmware and configuration drift, and provides abilities to report the drift with periodical checks and
allows users to remediate the drift against the baseline. OMIVV offers this functionality for clusters having any
supported ESXi versions starting from ESXi 6.0.
With the introduction of vSphere Lifecycle Manager in vCenter 7.0, VMware offers the capabilities to baseline
ESXi 7.0 host-based clusters against base image, add-on, and firmware, and allows admins to remediate the
host to align with the baseline. In this scenario, Dell EMC OMIVV acts as the Hardware Support Manager to
achieve firmware baselining on Dell EMC PowerEdge servers.