HP VMware ESXi 5.0 U2 Customized Image Release Notes for February 2013

4 Important notes and recommendations
The drivers and firmware recipe information for enabling hp VirtualConnect support can be
found at the following links: http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetPDF.aspx/4AA3-3148ENW.pdf
and http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c02610285/
c02610285.pdf. The drivers and firmware recipe information for HP ProLiant servers and options
can be found at the following link: http://vibsdepot.hp.com/hpq/recipes.
AMS and Active Health Installation
AMS and Active Health is shipped as part of the HP Custom Image, the HP ESXi Offline Bundle
and the new Agentless Management Service Offline Bundle. The HP Custom Image and the HP
ESXi Offline Bundle also include the HP Insight Management WBEM Providers. The AMS Offline
Bundle only includes the providers required to support online firmware update and SmartArray,
DIMM Status and iLO 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. See the
Deploying and updating vSphere 5.0 on Proliant servers white paper for more information.
If the customer has ESXi 5.0 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 step:
• Install the AMS Offline Bundle to replace the HP ESXi Offline Bundle
If the customer has ESXi 5.0 U2 and is currently using Agentless Management and does not have
the full providers installed and wants to move to using HP Insight Management WBEM Providers
for ESXi, they need to perform the following step:
• Install the HP ESXi Offline Bundle to replace the AMS Offline Bundle
System Memory required for installing ESXi 5.0 U2 Customized Image
VMware 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.
HP Dynamic Smart Array Controllers cannot be used as the target for a core dump (B120i with PCI
ID 8086 1C04 1590 006C)
SAS WWIDs for b120i controllers will be non-unique.
HP Insight Management WBEM Providers do not report the correct Smart Array License version
The Smart Array License version reported by the HP Insight Management WBEM providers
(‘VersionString’ property in the SMX_SALicense class) is empty or has a wrong value.
Consumers of HP Insight Management WBEM Providers like HP SIM will also be affected as they
do not get the appropriate Smart Array license version from the provider.
The custom image/depot contains a vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) plugin for the P2000
G3 array. ESXi hosts configured with a P711m, P712m or P721m Smart Array controller, P2000
G3 storage array, and the P2000 G3 VAAI plugin will experience an issue which impacts boot
from storage and datastore creation on attached P2000 LUNs. As a result of this issue, booting the
ESXi host from a P2000 LUN is not supported.
To support datastores on the P2000, a workaround must be implemented which disables the VAAI
Atomic Test and Set (ATS) primitive. To disable ATS, execute the following command on the ESXi
host from local command shell or remote esxcli:
esxcli system settings advanced set –i 0 –o
/VMFS3/HardwareAcceleratedLocking
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