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6. 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 than 10 drivers are present,
OMIVV randomly selects 10 drivers while creating driver repository profile.
• 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.
7. 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.
NOTE: For SMB 1.0 share used for driver repository, add the file separator at the end of the directory path.