AMI maintenance

Amazon EVS deploys ESXi hosts with a custom EVS Amazon Machine Image (AMI). The AMI contains a custom vendor add-on containing the required packages for running ESXi on Amazon EC2.

Troubleshoot add host failure due to incompatible cluster image

When you add a host to your environment, the host has the latest available version of the EVS custom vendor add-on. If your environment uses hosts with an older add-on version, adding new hosts fails with an error that the new host is not compatible with your cluster image. For detailed steps to fix this issue, see Add host failure due to incompatible cluster image.