topic Re: Upgrading iLO 5 v1.39 in Servers - General

Upgrading iLO 5 v1.39

SaiyadRa — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 02:16:13 GMT

Hi all,
I am trying update ILO 5 firmware on my DL380 Gen10 using the ILO GUI from the Firmware and OS software page.
When I try file U30_2.34_04_08_2020, it fails to upload and says the file is not signed.
When I try file U30_2.34_04_08_2020.signed.flash it fails midway while uploading.

What am i missing?

Re: Upgrading iLO 5 v1.39

Torsten. — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 06:25:22 GMT

These are BIOS files, ILO is here:

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/swd/detail?swItemId=MTX_88e1d4708c6c4cd48e64c7cf24#tab-history

Update to 1.4x first, then to the latest.

Re: Upgrading iLO 5 v1.39

Ihaqueit — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 18:23:42 GMT

Your version 1.39 and latest i see 2.55, better to go revision history and install start from to lower version.

The link.

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/swd/detail?swItemId=MTX_88e1d4708c6c4cd48e64c7cf24#tab-history

Re: Upgrading iLO 5 v1.39

SaiyadRa — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 20:33:48 GMT

Thanks guys.

Have a separate question:

I have ILO Amplifire and Hpe OneView.
- what will be the best tool to use to do , BIOS, ILO FIrmware and full System Firmware updates for 40+ ESXi Hosts on DL380 Gen10?

Re: Upgrading iLO 5 v1.39

Ihaqueit — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 20:35:33 GMT

iLO Amplifier Pack is a fast, massively scalable (10,000 servers) health, inventory and update management tool from HPE for iLO customers. The base features of discovery, inventory, reports and core platform firmware update are free of license. However full funcationality (email alerting, online and offline full firmware and software updates) require the iLO Advanced license. The System Recovery feature requires the iLO Advanced Premium Security Edition License.

HPE OneView provides full infrastructure management – provisioning, monitoring, remote support and firmware management. It is the core HPE software defined infrastructure management appliance and enables composability, being embedded into the HPE Synergy platform also. It manages and provisions Servers, Storage and Networking via software defined templates, and also provides integration and composability via the integrated REST API for over 25 integrations, with more being added all the time.

So, similar core features, but vastly different depending on how far down the journey of software defined infrastructure and automation you are.

Re: Upgrading iLO 5 v1.39

SaiyadRa — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 20:41:05 GMT

Thanks for the quick reponse.

Our environment is pretty static so low to no changes would mean OneView is an over-kill, but I am using it to consolidate alerts into SCOM.
So I will turn my focus on iLoAmp.
Is there a quick read guide or Blog Post I can follow to setup updates using iLOAMP?

Re: Upgrading iLO 5 v1.39

Kashyap02 — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 02:13:17 GMT

Here is the product overview for ILO amplifier.

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docLocale=en_US&docId=a00025385en_us

This describes the Product features, support OS and browsers.

Link to Quickspecs of ILO Amplifier: https://www.hpe.com/psnow/doc/a00002716enw.html?jumpid=in_lit-psnow-red

ILO Amplifier Document List: https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docLocale=en_US&docId=a00029517en_us

Hope this helps.