HP UEFI System Utilities and Shell Release Notes for HP ProLiant DL580 Gen8 Servers (June 2014)

Version
1.1.0.0 May 2014
Description
HP ProLiant DL580 Gen8 servers include the HP UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) System
Utilities, which is embedded in the system ROM. The UEFI System Utilities lets you perform a wide
range of configuration activities including:
• Configuring system devices and installed options
• Enabling and disabling system features
• Displaying system information
• Selecting the primary boot controller or partition
• Configuring memory options
• Launching other pre-boot environments such as the Embedded UEFI Shell and Intelligent Provisioning
Product models
This release applies to the following product model:
HP ProLiant DL580 Gen8 servers
Devices supported
Installation of this release allows the following devices to then be supported on the product models:
• iLO 4
• Smart Array Controllers
Operating systems
The following operating systems can run in UEFI mode:
• Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2
• Microsoft Windows 8 and 8.1
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP1 and 2008 R2 (x64 only for both)
• RHEL Linux 6.X and later
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 and later
• Ubuntu Linux 10.X and later
• VMware ESX 5.0 and later
• Solaris 11.1 and later
In this release, Secure Boot is available on systems running Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2,
Windows 8, and Windows Server 2012 as well as recent versions of Linux (SUSE Linux Enterprise
Server 11 SP3 and Ubuntu Server 13).
Requirements
The HP ProLiant DL580 Gen8 Server supports both Legacy BIOS Boot Mode (default) and UEFI Boot
Mode. This is configured via the Boot Mode setting in HP UEFI System Utilities. When the server is
configured for UEFI Boot Mode, observe the following requirements:
• If Microsoft Windows 2008 SP2 or Windows 2008 SP1 is used in UEFI Boot Mode, UEFI
Optimized Mode must be disabled (this option is enabled by default). This is required to work
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