Upgrading ESXi from 6.7U3 to 7 (Dell customized image)

[pondy001]

I am in the middle of upgrading the host cluster in our lab environment from ESXi version 6.7U3 to 7. I have already updated the vCenter Server appliance to version 7. I have created a baseline using the ESXi 7 ISO and have tried to update the cluster using the Life Cycle Manager but the scan says that baseline is compatible. I have vSAN configured and DRS is set to fully automatic mode.

Hardware wise, the lab consists of a Dell VRTX chassis with 4 M640 blade servers. Each blade has 2 x Intel Xeon Silver 4114 CPUs & 384 GB of RAM. I believe the hardware should be compatible, the compatibility matrix suggests so.

Anyone have an idea as to why the baseline would be incompatible?

[sudeshnas]

Hello pondy001​,

Welcome to vmware communities.

The Intel Xeon Silver 4114 series of CPU will be compatible with "Skylake" generation baseline.

Regards,

Sudeshna Sarkar

VMware vSphere support moderator

[vTara]

Hello,

Did you get an answer for the query ?

Do you still need any help from us ?

Regards

Tami

Install-Upgrade Specialist