VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) with IBM customization

A version of the IBM-customized VMware vSphere Hypervisor is preloaded on the IBM Flex System Manager management node.

Table 1. VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) compatibility with Deploying compute node images task
ESXi version	FSM version compatibility	Deployment information
ESXi 5.1	1.2.0 and later	No support for System x880 model 7903. See Port availability for deployed operating systems for a list of specific ports that are not blocked by VMware ESXi 5.1.
ESXi 5.1 U1, U2	1.3.2 and later	See Port availability for deployed operating systems for a list of specific ports that are not blocked by VMware ESXi 5.1.U1. To download VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 5.1.U1 with IBM customization, go to https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/preLogin.do?source=stg-esxi5.
ESXi 5.5 U1	1.3.2 and later	VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 5.1 with IBM customization deploys with the IBM® System Networking Distributed Switch 5000V vDS host module. The vDS host module implements a vDS portset and acts as a virtual network switch. See Port availability for deployed operating systems for a list of specific ports that are not blocked by VMware ESXi 5.1.U1. No support for System x880 model 7903. To download VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) 5.1.U1 with IBM customization, go to https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/preLogin.do?source=stg-esxi5.

Note: In TLS1.2 and NIST-Strict modes, only ESXi 5.5 is supported for deployment. You can deploy older versions of ESXi by using the command: 'smcli enabledeployosoverride' to enable less secure protocols and allow older ESXi versions to deploy. To disable the less secure protocols, run 'smcli disabledeployosoverride'.