What’s New
- Support for Communication Device Class Network Control Model (CDC-NCM) in the ESXi USB driver:
Starting with ESXi 8.0 Update 3e, the ESXi USB driver supports the CDC-NCM protocol for compatibility with HPE Gen12 iLO Virtual NIC and interoperability with HPE Agentless Management (AMS), Integrated Smart Update Tools (iSUT), the iLORest config tool, Intelligent Provisioning, and DPUs.- ESXi 8.0 Update 3e adds support for vSphere Quick Boot to:
- Intel vRAN Baseband Driver
- Intel Platform Monitoring Technology Driver
- Intel Data Center Graphics Driver
- AMD Instinct MI Series Driver
Broadcom makes available the VMware vSphere Hypervisor version 8, an entry-level hypervisor. You can download it free of charge from the Broadcom Support portal.