HP Integrated VMware ESXi 4.1 Update 2 Release Notes for June 2012

4 Important notes and recommendations

AMS and Active Health Installation

AMS and Active Health is shipped as part of the HP Custom Image, the ESXi Offline Bundle and

a new AMS Offline Bundle. The HP Custom Image and the ESXi Offline Bundle also include the

HP Insight Management WBEM Providers. The AMS Offline Bundle only includes the providers

required to support SmartArray reporting in vCenter. Customers can manage their ProLiant servers

using Agentless Management without installing the AMS Offline Bundle. Only customers who intend

to manage their ProLiant servers using only Agentless Management and do not need the full set of

HP Insight Management WBEM Providers installed should install the AMS Offline Bundle.

If the customer has ESXi 4.1 U2 and is currently using HP Insight Management WBEM Providers

for ESXi and requires Agentless Management and does not need the full set of providers installed,

they need to perform the following steps:

1. Uninstall the ESXi Offline Bundle

2. Install the AMS Offline Bundle

If the customer has ESXi 4.1 U2 and is currently using Agentless Management and does not have

the full providers installed and requires HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for ESXi, they

need to perform the following steps:

1. Uninstall the AMS Offline Bundle

2. Install the ESXi Offline Bundle

NC55xx/CN1000E/CN1100E - Network driver may cause a PSOD if there are more than 10

network devices available to the OS. This is resolved by applying the following VMware patch:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&

externalId=2013057

HP devices requiring the ESX/ESXi 4.x Emulex be2net network driver may experience a PSOD

if there are more than 10 network devices available to the ESX/ESXi 4.1U2 host installed with the

HP Custom Image. This will be resolved in a patch update to the VMware operating system in the

near future.

System memory required to install ESXi 4.1 U2 Customized Image

VMware ESX and ESXi will not install on an HP Gen8 server with 2 GB or less system memory.

Although VMware’s stated minimum installation requirement is 2 GB of system memory, HP’s Gen8

platforms do not expose enough of the 2 GB of system memory to the operating system, causing

the installation to fail. This issue is resolved by populating the system with more than 2 GB of

memory.

Incorrect Memory Information shown by WBEM provider, when Memory Expansion Boards installed

Fixed issue where, HP Insight Management WBEM Provider for ESXi reports wrong number of

memory boards and memory modules and incorrect memory status information for a ProLiant server

with memory expansion boards installed and populated with DIMM modules.