You can use the operations to discover VMware products that can be associated with

vCenter Server

, list associated products, and manage product associations. You can also get details about available

vCenter Server

updates, perform pre-checks, and produce reports. The reports can contain interoperability or pre-check information. Interoperability reports contain information about the interoperability between the associated products and a specific

vCenter Server

version. Pre-check reports contain information about the compatibility of the current

vCenter Server

version with a pending update version. You can plan to perform

vCenter Server

updates based on the information gathered in the produced reports.