This article provides steps to verify the driver and firmware version of Physical Nic (vmnic) and HBA at the ESXi host using the Broadcom Compatibility Guide
If I/O Devices are incompatible. It may trigger some worse results as follows:
Note: The consequences of incompatibility are unpredictable.
VMware vSphere ESXi 6.x
VMware vSphere ESXi 7.x
VMware vSphere ESXi 8.x
The result may show many entries which map the same VID, DID, SVID, and SSID(Max SSID), For this situation, we need to use Model and Brand Name to confirm which Device is the true one