Symptoms:

The following errors might be encountered during installation or upgrades of ESXi hosts to 8.0:

1. Update Manager compliance scans indicates that a baseline (creating used an imported ISO) is Incompatible and the error details indicate an error on the following lines:
   The following VIB(s) on the host or in the chosen baseline(s) do not have the required checksums on their payloads: {some VIB names}
   This will prevent VIB security verification and secure boot from functioning properly. Please remove these VIBs and check with your vendor for a replacement of these VIBs.

2. While using esxcli software vib, profile or apply command to install VIB or upgrade the system, you see ProfileValidationError like:
   In ImageProfile (Updated) {Image Profile Name}, the payload(s) in VIB {some VIB name} does not have sha-256 gunzip checksum. This will prevent VIB security verification and secure boot from functioning properly. Please remove this VIB or please check with your vendor for a replacement of this VIB. Please refer to the log file for more details.

3. While creating a ESXi server using an ISO image or while using the scripted installation, the following error is seen:
   <MISSING_GUNZIP_CHECKSUM_VIB_ERRORS:
   Found=[{some VIB names} Expected=[]
   These VIB(s) do not have the required sha-256 gunzip checksum for their payloads. This will prevent VIB security verification and secure boot from functioning properly. Please remove these VIBs and check with your vendor for a replacement of these VIBs.>

VMware vSphere ESXi 8.0.x

If there are VIBs present on ESXi that do not have the “sha-256” checksum-type and “gunzip” verify-process pair in the VIB metadata, an upgrade to ESXi 8.0 will fail, with a message identifying the VIBs that prevented the upgrade.

While the problematic VIBs are part of the host, the upgrade/installation cannot proceed. Thus, one of the following can be done:
 

1. Please check with the vendors of the problematic VIBs if there are any updates available to the same. If available, please update these VIBs (using either a VUM baseline or using the esxcli commands) and retry the upgrade operation.
2. If the problematic VIBs are not in use or no longer needed, remove them using esxcli command:

   
If the following VIBs are installed on the host, the required customer action (for upgrading to 8.0) is listed below:

Vmware-perccli
Vmware-storcli
emulex-esx-elxmgmt
Avaya
Some Avaya VIBs  are not supported anymore, hence needs to be removed for upgrade, this includes:
New Avaya product offering uses esxcli software profile install -p $PROFILE (profile install) instead of (profile update) to remove previous VIBs and installs the new ones.

Following VIBs are being developed with HEXDK version: vmware-esx-hexdk-devtools-7.0.0-1.0.15843807.x86_64, so new 7.0 version will be available:
Dell sas-raid_boss-cli_6.x, SuperMicro TAS: