VMware: Best practices for maintaining HP firmware, driver, and system software using the HP Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) and the HP Software Delivery Repository (SDR)

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Technical white paper

VMware: Best practices for

maintaining HP firmware,

driver, and system software

Using the HP Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) and the HP Software Delivery Repository

(SDR)

Table of contents

Abstract .................................................................................................................................................................................. 2

HP Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) ..................................................................................................................................... 2

SPP components ................................................................................................................................................................... 2

Online firmware update requirements ............................................................................................................................... 3

Online firmware deployment options ................................................................................................................................. 3

HP Online Depot in the Software Delivery Repository (SDR) ........................................................................................... 4

Resources, contacts, or additional links ............................................................................................................................. 5

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Technical white paper VMware: Best practices for maintaining HP firmware, driver, and system software Using the HP Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) and the HP Software Delivery Repository (SDR) Table of contents Abstract ..................................................................................................................................................................................2 HP Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) ...........................................................................
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Technical white paper | VMware: Best practices for maintaining HP firmware, driver, and system software Abstract This paper describes alternatives available for maintaining HP firmware, driver, and system software components on HP ProLiant servers and HP ProLiant server blades in a VMware environment. We recommend the following best practices for maintaining these components: „ To update HP firmware components on VMware vSphere 5.1 and VMware ESXi 5.
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Technical white paper | VMware: Best practices for maintaining HP firmware, driver, and system software To see the full list of online firmware smart components for the VMware OS, see the SPP Release Notes at hp.com/go/spp/documentation. We will phase in additional online smart components for the VMware environment. Important Updating firmware without updating the associated drivers may cause unexpected results.
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Technical white paper | VMware: Best practices for maintaining HP firmware, driver, and system software For information on how to use Insight Control for vCenter to perform online firmware updates, see: „ The white paper Deploying and updating VMware vSphere 5.0 on HP ProLiant servers „ Insight Control for vCenter information hp.com/go/icvcenter Using firmware smart components directly We do not recommend using firmware smart components directly on the ESXi and vSphere host.
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Technical white paper | VMware: Best practices for maintaining HP firmware, driver, and system software Resources, contacts, or additional links HP Systems and Server Software Management (Smart Update Solution) hp.com/go/SmartUpdate HP Service Pack for ProLiant hp.com/go/spp HP Service Pack for ProLiant Download hp.com/go/spp/download HP Service Pack for ProLiant Information Library hp.com/go/spp/documentation HP Smart Update Manager Information Library hp.