Thank you Andre. Your answer provided me with a lot of pieces to this puzzle I could not find elsewhere
I am running lifecycle manager (I didn't think I had a choice since it's what came with v7).
My iLO is updated already since I could do that without rebooting the entire server.
This was all initially installed less than a year ago, so I'm probably not going to get a situation where esxi won't boot because the firmware is too new..
But are you saying that, if I remove the baselines in the screenshot, there's a way to get the latest update from the lifecycle manager screen to this one? I'm honestly not sure how they ended up there in the guest place, I thought it was automatic when VMware released an update but maybe I did something in the middle of trying to figure it out the last time.
And how do I know which HPE addon to install? There are dozens of them, including several for my particular server. But it seems very slight differences in certain drivers (and firmware?). Do I need to research each listed driver to ensure with my particular machine, things will or won't work, depending which addon I choose?
Thank you!
Jeff