9.9.7

VCF / vSphere 9.1 HCI Readiness Assessment Tool — Release 9.9.7

Bugfix release v9.9.7 introduces improved Lenovo ThinkSystem handling, a dedicated Lenovo BMC Hardware Security Audit subsystem, interactive BMC credential verification probing, and physical network virtualization offload telemetry.

Key Highlights & Capabilities

• Improved Lenovo Handling:
  • Automatically deduplicates repeated drive endpoints reported by internal Lenovo ThinkSystem M.2 RAID enablement kits (B545i-2i).
  • Extracts multi-tier CPU cache topology (L1/L2/L3) from Oem.Lenovo.CacheInfo with normalized sizing and associativity.
  • Enhances drive SMART wear, endurance, and operational telemetry across SAS/SATA/NVMe controllers.
  • Adds BIOS TCG TPM 2.0 active status verification and Features-on-Demand (FoD) upgrade key fallback.
• Dedicated Lenovo BMC Security Audit Subsystem:
  • Full hardware security audit evaluator for Lenovo XClarity Controller (XCC / XCC2 / XCC3).
  • Evaluates BMC firmware currency, TLS configuration, physical presence jumpers, network service exposure, password policies, and security posture scoring.
• Interactive BMC Credential Probing:
  • Web UI session API enables live BMC credential probes with immediate verification and automated session cleanup (DELETE) to protect BMC controller resources.
• Network Virtualization Offload:
  • Corrects adapter-level SR-IOV Virtual Function capacity aggregation from controller capabilities and network device functions.

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Downloads & Packages

• Source Bundle (Recommended): Distribution-VCF-Readiness.zip
  • Complete source code and offline HCL database.
  • Requires Python 3.9+ standard library only (zero pip dependencies).
  • Extract the archive and launch: python3 vcfr_web.py
• Windows Executable: VCF-Readiness-Web-v9.9.7-win.zip
  • Optional standalone convenience executable for Windows (double-click to launch).
• macOS Application: VCF-Readiness-Web-v9.9.7-mac.zip
  • Optional standalone convenience executable for macOS (includes launcher script).