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Contents
Revisions............................................................................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgments ............................................................................................................................................................... 2
Contents .............................................................................................................................................................................. 3
Terminology ........................................................................................................................................................................ 4
Executive summary ............................................................................................................................................................. 5
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................................... 6
1.1 Importance of compliance baselines for vSAN ................................................................................................... 6
1.2 Hardware compatibility for vSAN clusters .......................................................................................................... 6
2 Custom repositories ..................................................................................................................................................... 8
2.1 Create custom firmware repository using Dell EMC Repository Manager (DRM) ............................................. 8
2.2 Create custom driver repository ....................................................................................................................... 15
3 Manage firmware and driver repositories using repository profile ............................................................................. 17
3.1 Repository Profile ............................................................................................................................................. 17
3.1.1 Create repository profile ................................................................................................................................... 17
4 Create Cluster Profile ................................................................................................................................................. 22
5 Drift view for the cluster .............................................................................................................................................. 22
6 Remediation of cluster (firmware and/or drivers) ....................................................................................................... 23
7 Common issues when using OMIVV to create repository profiles ............................................................................. 24
8 Conclusion .................................................................................................................................................................. 25
9 Technical Support and Resources ............................................................................................................................. 26