To use services form the

com.vmware.esx.hcl.hosts

package, you must verify that you have accepted to participate in the CEIP and there is available compatibility data.

You can use the

com.vmware.esx.hcl.hosts.CompatibilityReleases

interface

to list available releases for generating a compatibility report for a specific

ESXi

host. To list the locally available

ESXi

releases for the host that can be used to generate a compatibility report,

call the

list(host_ID)

method

. The list includes only major and update releases. Patch releases are not listed.

You can use the

com.vmware.esx.hcl.hosts.CompatibilityReport

interface

to generate a hardware compatibility report for an

ESXi

host against a specific

ESXi

release. To return the last generated hardware compatibility report for a specific host,

call the

get(host_ID)

method

. To generate a hardware compatibility report for a specific host against specific

ESXi

release,

call the

create_Task(host_ID,spec)

method

.

You can use the

com.vmware.esx.hcl.Reports

interface

to download information generated by the hardware compatibility report. To retrieve the URI location for downloading a compatibility report,

call the

get(report_ID)

method

.