PowerEdge: Firmware catalog for Dell customized VMware ESXi 6.x images
Summary: Dell's firmware catalogs for customized versions of Dell's VMware ESXi 6.x, 6.5.x and 6.7.x releases. When users use the Dell customized ESXi versions along with corresponding firmware catalogs, the end to end wanted state is achieved. ...
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Instructions
This Dell KB provide the firmware catalog payloads supported for Dell customized VMware ESXi 6.x branches. The firmware catalog is to be used for general ESXi use cases and not for vSAN. For vSAN, we provide a specific catalog for each release. To know more about the ESXi firmware catalog in general, see ESXi firmware catalog KB.
Below table maps the recommended firmware for Dell customized VMware ESXi 6.x, 6.5.x and 6.7.x images. This is a living document and gets modified as and when new catalogs are released. However, since this is the ESXi 6.x branch and is End Of Life already, there will not be releases for this branch unless there is absolute necessity.
NOTE:
- The file named ESXi_Catalog.xml.gz is the compressed version of the catalog file.
ESXi_Catalog.xml.gz.signis the signature associated with the specific file. Some of the Dell provided user space applications which consume the catalog file may need the signature file as well to verify the checksum.
Firmware catalogs for Dell Customized VMware ESXi 6.x, 6.5.x and 6.7.x images
NOTE:
- Starting catalog version 22.02.01, Dell started providing a firmware version report as well along with catalog payload and signature file. This helps the users to review the firmware versions in an HTML format without using any external utilities.
Affected Products
VMware ESXi 6.5.X, VMware ESXi 6.7.X, VMware ESXi 6.xProducts
PowerEdge XR2, Poweredge C4140, PowerEdge C6420, PowerEdge FC640, PowerEdge M640, PowerEdge M640 (for PE VRTX), PowerEdge MX5016s, PowerEdge MX740C, PowerEdge MX840C, PowerEdge R240, PowerEdge R340, PowerEdge R440, PowerEdge R540, PowerEdge R640
, PowerEdge R6415, PowerEdge R740, PowerEdge R740XD, PowerEdge R740XD2, PowerEdge R7415, PowerEdge R7425, PowerEdge R840, PowerEdge R940, PowerEdge R940xa, PowerEdge T140, PowerEdge T340, PowerEdge T440, PowerEdge T640, PowerEdge XE2420, PowerEdge XE7420, PowerEdge XE7440
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Article Number: 000225272
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 04 Jan 2025
Version: 4
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