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In an August 2020 study, Principled Technologies set up a cluster of previous- and current-generation Dell EMC PowerEdge servers and carried out updates and compatibility verification tasks manually as well as using VMware vSphere 7.0 features such as vSphere Lifecycle Manager with Quick Boot and the Dell OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter (OMIVV). Using these tools allowed our admins to update the hypervisor 34 times faster, complete hypervisor and firmware updates 68 times faster, and conduct hardware compatibility checks 7 times faster than with a manual approach alone.3 Read the full report: https://www.principledtechnologies.com/Dell/ vSphere-7.0-update-compatibility-check-0820-v3.pdf.
3 Principled Technologies, “New VMware vSphere 7.0 features reduced the time and complexity of routine update and hardware compliance tasks,” accessed October 28, 2020, https://www.principledtechnologies.com/Dell/vSphere-7.0-update-compatibility-check-0820-v3.pdf.