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Firmware catalog for Dell customized VMware ESXi 8.x images

Summary: Dell's firmware catalogs for customized versions of Dell's VMware ESXi 8.x releases. When the Dell customized ESXi versions are used along with corresponding firmware catalogs, the end to end desired state is achieved. ...

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This Dell KB provide the firmware catalog payloads supported for Dell customized VMware ESXi 8.x branches. Note that the firmware catalog is to be used for general ESXi usecases and not for vSAN. For vSAN, we provide a specific catalog for each releases. To know more about the ESXi firmware catalog in general, refer to ESXi firmware catalog KB.

Below table maps the recommended firmware for Dell customized VMware ESXi 8.x images. This is a living document and gets modified as and when new catalogs are released.

NOTE:

The file named ESXi_Catalog.xml.gz is the compressed version of catalog file.
ESXi_Catalog.xml.gz.sign is the signature associated with the specific file. Note that some of the Dell provided userspace applications which consume the catalog file may need the signature file as well to verify the checksum.

Firmware catalogs for Dell Customized VMware ESXi 8.x images

Dell Customized Vmware ESXi Revision	Dell Addon Name and Version	VMware ESXi Build and Version (Base Image)	ESXi FW catalog Release date	Version	Catalog Location

VMware ESXi 8.0 A00	Name:Dell addon for PowerEdge Servers Version:800-A00	Build: 20513097 Version: ESXi 8.0 GA	26th December 2022	22.12.26	https://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER09382818M/1/ESXi_Catalog.xml.gz https://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER09382832M/1/ESXi_Catalog.xml.gz.sign https://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER09382827M/1/ESXi_Catalog_SW_BundleReport.html
VMware ESXi 8.0 A02	Name:Dell addon for PowerEdge Servers Version:800-A02	Build: 20513097 Version: ESXi 8.0 GA	17th March 2023	23.03.14	https://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER09735839M/1/ESXi_Catalog.xml.gz https://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER09735907M/1/ESXi_Catalog.xml.gz.sign https://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER09745324M/1/ESXi_Catalog_SW_BundleReport.html
VMware ESXi 8.0 A03	Name:Dell addon for PowerEdge Servers Version:800-A03	Build: 21203435 Version: ESXi 8.0b
VMware ESXi 8.0 A05	Name:Dell addon for PowerEdge Servers Version:800-A05	Build: 21203435 Version: ESXi 8.0b	20th July 2023	23.06.19	https://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER10343733M/1/ESXi_Catalog.xml.gz https://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER10343734M/1/ESXi_Catalog.xml.gz.sign https://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER10343735M/1/ESXi_Catalog_SW_BundleReport.html
VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 1 A02	Name:Dell addon for PowerEdge Servers Version:801-A02	Build: 21813344 Version: ESXi 8.0 Update 1a	5th September 2023	23.09.05	https://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER10552929M/1/ESXi_Catalog.xml.gz https://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER10552932M/1/ESXi_Catalog.xml.gz.sign https://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER10552945M/1/ESXi_Catalog_SW_BundleReport.html
VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 1 A04	Name: Dell addon for PowerEdge Servers Version: 801-A04	Build: 22088125 Version: ESXi 8.0 Update 1c	23rd October 2023	23.10.06	https://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER10684306M/1/ESXi_Catalog.xml.gz https://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER10684313M/1/ESXi_Catalog.xml.gz.sign https://downloads.dell.com/FOLDER10684321M/1/ESXi_Catalog_SW_BundleReport.html

VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 2 A00	Name: Dell addon for PowerEdge Servers Version: 802-A00	Build: 22380479 Version: ESXi 8.0 Update 2
VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 1 A05	Name: Dell addon for PowerEdge Servers Version: 801-A05	Build: 23299997 Version: ESXi 8.0 Update 1d
VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 2 A03	Name: Dell addon for PowerEdge servers Version: 802-A03	Build: 22380479 Version: ESXi 8.0 Update 2	03-Jan-24	23.12.27	https://dl.dell.com/FOLDER11068196M/1/ESXi_Catalog.xml.gz https://dl.dell.com/FOLDER11068191M/1/ESXi_Catalog.xml.gz.sign https://dl.dell.com/FOLDER11068195M/1/ESXi_Catalog_SW_BundleReport.html


VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 2 A05	Name: Dell addon for PowerEdge servers Version: 802-A05	Build: 22380479 Version: ESXi 8.0 Update 2	01-Apr-24	24.03.25	https://dl.dell.com/FOLDER11424318M/1/ESXi_Catalog.xml.gz https://dl.dell.com/FOLDER11424364M/1/ESXi_Catalog.xml.gz.sign https://dl.dell.com/FOLDER11424397M/1/ESXi_Catalog_SW_BundleReport.html
VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 2 A06	Name: Dell addon for PowerEdge servers Version: 802-A06	Build: 23305546 Version: ESXi 8.0 Update 2b

NOTE:

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.

Firmware catalog for Dell customized VMware ESXi 8.x images

Summary: Dell's firmware catalogs for customized versions of Dell's VMware ESXi 8.x releases. When the Dell customized ESXi versions are used along with corresponding firmware catalogs, the end to end desired state is achieved. ...

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