HP Smart Update Best Practices Planning Guide

1 Introduction
Overview
Firmware, software, and drivers for your server environment are crucial for maintaining server
systems. HP has created the update packages to help you maintain your servers as consistently
and easily as possible. Planning an update helps make the process go smoothly and minimizes
downtime.
NOTE: HP SUM supports updating firmware only for VMware ESXi targets.
Explanation of guides
These guides are written to help you create strategies for using the HP update packages.
• HP Smart Update Best Practices Overview–Provides information for keeping your system
environment updated and running at its best.
• HP Smart Update Best Practices Planning Guide–Provides an outline for creating a firmware
update plan to follow before updating your server environment.
• HP Smart Update Best Practices Implementer Guide–Provides examples for implementing an
update.
You can find these guides on the HP Smart Update Manager Information Library at http://
www.hp.com/go/hpsum/documentation.
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