We have many HPE Blade System C7000 chassis for hosting our virtual infrastructures or our customers virtual infrastructures. Also many of them are filled with HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen10. Recently, we had serious problem with some of the servers about network connection, if there was FlexFabric 650 (FLB/M) adapter installed...
HPE Offline Bundle 3.5.0-12 for VMware ESXi includes important fixes for issues which can be cause of service down time. If you have VMware ESXi 6.5 or VMware ESXi 6.7, you must update HPE Offline Bundle to the new version (3.5.0-12).
Bad news, this version doesn’t support Windows 2012, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and VMware vSphere 6. Update supported from these versions: 2019.09.0, 2019.03.1. This version supporting online firmware for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Supported Operating Systems The following operating systems are supported for system software and firmware: Microsoft Windows...
Today, HPE has released Virtual Connect 4.80, the release is includes lots of security fixes. Beginning with VC 4.80, HPE VC Flex-10 10Gb Ethernet Module is not supported having reached its 5 year End of Support period in July 2018. To upgrade to Virtual Connect 4.80, the minimum Virtual Connect...
Seems, there is an issue on HPE Blade Servers when a specific adapter is installed on server. If there is any server of the below models in your virtual environment that you should consider to this post: HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen10 Server Blade HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen9 Server Blade HPE...
HPE has released latest of SPP (Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) Version 2019.09.0), the new release is including latest version of firmware and drivers for supported servers and components. This SPP does not contain second generation AMD EPYC processor updates. The ROMs included in this SPP should not be used...
Seems, OneView 5.0 is available for download but I didn’t find any document about new features. OneView 5.0 is a major version and should includes new features and important improvements. I found some information on HPE community. New Features in OneView 5.0 Before review the new features, please consider that...
Server Hardware / Virtualization
by Davoud Teimouri · Published 16/08/2019 · Last modified 21/08/2019
Optimizing server configuration is always one of biggest challenges for virtual environments administrators. The administrators always trying to provide best performance by changing configurations on hypervisor, virtual machines or other components or virtual infrastructure. There are best practices which published by server vendors to achieve best performance on their server...
HPE C7000 Blade System using Onboard Administrator (OA) KVM module to manage devices and interconnects in chassis. To manage devices directly, OA will redirect to iLO of each device. OA use single sign-on to logon to iLO administration web page. But each server has own administrator user and the user...
Server Hardware / Virtualization
by Davoud Teimouri · Published 09/08/2019 · Last modified 21/08/2019
Data Center design is changing year by year, before virtualization all servers was physical and data centers were full of devices and cables. Virtualization helped to make data centers smaller and consolidate different workloads in same hardware. Hardware technologies are also helping to achieve this goal. Network Partitioning (NPAR) is...
