Hello @jamiewdickson 

A couple of options:

-People have been able to install the ISO that was stated to be "incompatible" using CLI

https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/how-to-upgrade-esxi-6-7-to-7-0-without-vcenter 

-You can also remove the problematic vibs

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.esxi.upgrade.doc/GUID-340F35BB-E98A-4A39-AE89-667917FCE537.html

Finally you can do a fresh install if you have more than 1 node (redundancy) or if you dont care about data

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Hello @jamiewdickson 

I had the same error so I ran:

esxcli software vib list | grep qlge

Which resulted in:
net-qlge 3.0.0.59-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 QLogic VMwareCertified 2017-08-29

I then went ahead and removed the vib with:

esxcli software vib remove -n net-qlge

Resulting in successfully removed VIB: QLogic_bootbank_net-qlge_3.0.0.59-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820

Then re-ran the installation pointing to the DELL profile:

esxcli software profile update -d "/vmfs/volumes/MyDirectory/VMware-VMvisor-Installer-7.0.0.update03-19482537.x86_64-DellEMC_Customized-A04.zip" -p DEL-ESXi-703_19482537-A04
--no-hardware-warning

The no hadware warning was due to an older Intel processor chip.  The update then ran successfully,  so I went ahead an applied the latest security patch at the time:


esxcli software vib update -d /vmfs/volumes/MyDirectory/VMware-ESXi-7.0U3e-19898904-depot.zip

The server is running well.

Hope this helps.

Chris