HP VMware ESXi 5.0 U3 Customized Image Release Notes for June 2014

4 Important notes and recommendations
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 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 ESXi 5.0 U3 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 ESXi 5.0 U3 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
AMS Fixes
• Improved fix for memory leak issue.
System Memory required for installing ESXi 5.0 U3 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 of 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 (B120i and B320i) cannot be used as the target for a core
dump
SAS WWIDs for B120i controllers will be non-unique
HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for VMWare ESXi Fail to show information for Certain
NIC Controllers
HP Insight Management WBEM provider for ESXi platform fails to get the Vendor and Product
Name for NC550m & NC553m and CN1000E & NC552SFP Controllers.
HP ProLiant Servers: HP Smart Array Controllers - Out-of-Memory Condition May Lead to a Server
Halt and Purple Screen Under VMware ESXi 5.0, 5.1, or 5.5 After Upgrading to HP Smart Array
Controller Driver (hpsa) Version 5.x.0.58-1
This version of the HP Customized image includes the HP Smart Array Controller Driver (hpsa)
Version 5.x.0.60-1 which fixes the issue. The link to the customer Advisory describes the condition
in more detail and is located at http://h20564.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/
docDisplay/?docId=c04302261.
HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for VMWare ESXi Fails to Provide System Information
HP Insight Management WBEM provider for ESXi platform fails to return the values for the provider
queries due to Intermittent Provider Crash when the client tries to query Ethernet Data.
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