Getting Started Guide

3 New and updated in this release
The new and updated features for the HP vSphere 5.5 U1 Customized Image for December 2014
include:
• Unable to successfully upgrade host using the 5.5 U1 June HP Custom Image
When you try to upgrade to the below 5.5 U1 Custom Image, you will encounter a ‘Conflicting
VIBs Error’ with the bnx2 driver and will not be able to successfully upgrade the host.
◦ VMware-ESXi-5.5.0-Update1-1746018-HP-5.74.27-Jun2014
• Provider Features
◦ Added capability to configure the providers to ignore the status of an unused FC port
• SR-IOV Support
◦ Refer to the HP ProLiant server and option firmware and driver support recipe on http://
vibsdepot.hp.com for the list of supported SR-IOV adapters and drivers.
◦ For additional details on supported servers, Guest Operating Systems, SR-IOV limitations,
configuration steps, and troubleshooting, see the HP White Paper – Implementing SR-IOV
on HP ProLiant Servers with VMware vSphere 5.1
• Utilities features
◦ HPBOOTCFG - Report/Set UEFI or Legacy boot mode
• Support for the Flex-20 technology to stream twice the bandwidth of 10 GB adapters for
virtualized and converged data centers
6 New and updated in this release