A firmware catalog is an aggregation of all firmware bundles that is supported on multiple generations of Dell servers.
Dell started releasing firmware catalogs for Dell customized versions of VMware ESXi releases. The intent of this catalog is to announce the recommended firmware versions for Dell customized versions of VMware ESXi for various server models and peripherals. NOTE that the catalog contain firmware versions for all the generations of servers and corresponding peripherals. Hence it's advised that end users go through the compatibility matrix carefully to assess the support stance for the specific server model and the peripheral that they use for a specific version of VMware ESXi. The compatibility guides of various versions of Dell customized VMware ESXi is found at Dell Support as below.
The driver versions that are integrated into Dell customized VMware ESXi images are documented in 8.x, 7.x and 6.x customization guides.
Starting May 2024, we've divided the payload content to multiple KBs based on the ESXi branch. This page is going to be static and the below KBs will have the payloads for individual ESXi branches moving forward.