Sajal Choudhary

ESXi firmware upgrade baseline fails to apply with incompatible message

VMWAREESXI

In the message, it will show the list of VIBs that are causing problems.

For example, on cisco blade, some hpe related firmware is present.

esxcli software vib list | grep -i hpe
amsd                           701.11.9.0.9-1OEM.701.0.0.16850804    HPE     VMwareAccepted    2023-09-02
amsdv                          701.11.3.0.17-1OEM.701.0.0.16850804   HPE     VMwareAccepted    2023-09-02
fc-enablement                  700.3.9.0.4-1OEM.700.1.0.15843807     HPE     PartnerSupported  2023-09-02
hpe-upgrade                    1.4.1-1OEM.700.1.0.15843807           HPE     PartnerSupported  2023-09-02
ilo                            700.10.8.0.6-1OEM.700.1.0.15843807    HPE     PartnerSupported  2023-09-02
ilorest                        700.4.0.0.0.32-15843807               HPE     PartnerSupported  2023-09-02
sut                            701.4.1.0.8-1OEM.701.0.0.16850804     HPE     VMwareAccepted    2023-09-02
vnic-enablement                700.2.10.10-1OEM.700.1.0.15843807     HPE     PartnerSupported  2023-09-02

Remove these vibs.

 esxcli software vib remove -n amsdv

After removing problematic vibs, reboot and check compliance again.

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