Upgrade iLO2 firmware on a DL380 G6 running ESXi 4.1

[Goutham_Sabala]

Strange, what about offline ? Was the offline ILO firmware succesful ?

[Oscar A. Perez]

Your .bin file could be corrupted or incomplete.  The binary for all the iLO2 versions 2.0x are 3072K bytes long.

Please try downloading the iLO2 v2.07 Windows Online component again, execute it and then select "extract" to a folder.

[Torsten.]

Get this file and extract it:

ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softlib2/software1/sc-windows-fw-ilo/p1443420321/v71020/cp015686.exe

you will get this file

17.08.2011  10:38         3.145.728                   ilo2_207.bin

Now connect to the ILO web page and use this file for update.

Have a look into the README.TXT file too.

[jstuer]

I got the iLO firmware updated using the USB key.    Thanks everyone! 

[Benco]

It is definitely a browser issue.  Faced the same problem, found this thread when searching for a fix, and tried it on an XP machine running IE 8 and it flashed no problem on both servers.  On IE9 both failed at the very last step.

[Oscar A. Perez]

It was a bug in the iLO2 webserver code that somehow surfaced few months ago after IE9 got some updates. It is related to the content length value that IE9 gives iLO2 when uploading the firmware image. But, not everybody running IE9 sees this issue. Also, I know by fact that if you use a proxy, you're likely not going to see this issue. 

Anyway, the bug is fixed in iLO2 version 2.09

[oyskolbe]

Same bug in 209... Upgrade with IE9 fails, but with firefox everything is OK

[Oscar A. Perez]

Are you already running 2.09 and upgrading to what?

By the way, I was told today that IE8 is exhibiting the same issue now. 

Apparently, MS recently patched IE8 and it is now behaving the same way as IE9.  The workaround is to upgrade iLO2 firmware to 2.09 using Firefox.  Once 2.09 is up and running, next time you need to upgrade iLO2 firmware, you can use IE8 or IE9.

[Pwheeler]

Just ran into this issue myself - both on IE7 and IE8.

Firefox workaround allowed me to upgrade allowed me to get from 1.78 to 2.09.

[Oscar A. Perez]

Please try upgrading from 2.09 to 2.12 using IE8 or IE9. It should work fine now.

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/ITRC-remote-lights-out-mgmt-iLO/iLO2-v2-12-released-to-the-FTP/td-p/5735927