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VMWARE ESXI 6.7 HARDWARE COMPATIBILITY DRIVERS
VMWARE ESXI 6.7 HARDWARE COMPATIBILITY UPDATE

VMWARE ESXI 6.7 HARDWARE COMPATIBILITY UPDATE

ESXi Secure Boot must not be enabled on the Update Manager.

VMWARE ESXI 6.7 HARDWARE COMPATIBILITY DRIVERS

The instalation of ESXi 6.7 must run native drivers only, this means that no VMKLinux drivers can be in use.

Click on the below links to see the supported server models for ESXi 6.7 Quick boot,Īpart from hardware compatibility, Below are some of the additional requirement: Currently, Dell and HP are the OEM hardware vendors supports ESXi Quick boot process. Not all servers or configurations support the EXi 6.7 Quick Boot feature. To make use of ESXi 6.7 quick boot features, compatible hardware is needed.

Hardware Requirement for ESXi 6.7 Quick Boot You can make use of ESXi 6.7 Quick boot feature only with compatible hardware installed with ESXi 6.7. If the ESXi 6.7 hardware is incompatible with vSphere 6.7 Quick Boot, it will perform a regular reboot which includes the standard hardware initialization. With ESXi 6.7 Quick boot process, hardware does not go through the normal process of reboot operations such as POST, firmware load, re-initialization of hardware resources, reload ACPI/SMBIOS tables etc… Quick Boot optimizes the reboot path to avoid this, saving considerable time from the upgrade process. A regular reboot involves a full power cycle that requires firmware and device initialization. Quick Boot is a vSphere feature that speeds up the upgrade process of an ESXi server. ESXi 6.7 Quick Boot What is ESXi 6.7 Quick Boot?

To avoid the time-consuming device initialization and self-testing procedures, vSphere 6.7 released with the feature ESXi 6.7 Quick Boot.

Complete hardware reboot is acceptable when we perform hardware firmware upgrade or other hardware related changes but rebooting entire hardware along with ESXi reboot during simple host patch or even during host upgrades is one of the time-consuming tasks. With the modern datacenter and high-end servers installed with GB’s & TB’s of memory took look time to initialize the hardware during ESXi host reboot.

Diff VCenter 5.5 appliance and vCenter on WIndowsĪs a VMware administrator, most of our efforts in vSphere infrastructure is patching and upgrading your vSphere apart from the Production support.