topic Re: SPP and Post Production in ProLiant Servers (ML,DL,SL)

SPP and Post Production

StuartCookson — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 15:35:51 GMT

Hello,

I have a Proliant DL380 with the last SPP installed being 2017.07.02. I need to install the latest SPP to this server. I have found "Service Pack for Proliant (SPP) Version 2018.03.0" which states that it has been tested on Gen9 and Gen10 servers. The page also has a link to "Service Pack for Proliant (SPP) Version Gen8.1".

I'm a bit confused which I should be installing. I think it should be the latter but could someone confirm please?

Hope this makes some sort of sense!!

Many thanks

Stuart

Re: SPP and Post Production

Torsten. — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 15:53:05 GMT

what generation is your server?

Re: SPP and Post Production

StuartCookson — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 15:54:04 GMT

Apologies, forgot to add that!! Its Gen8

Re: SPP and Post Production

Torsten. — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 16:03:23 GMT

SPP2017.07 was for Gen9 and Gen10 only.

The last SPP for G6, G7 and Gen8 was SPP2017.04, followed by the post production SPPs.

So go to https://spp.hpe.com/custom and get the post production SPP for Gen8 including hotfixes.

Re: SPP and Post Production

StuartCookson — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 16:07:33 GMT

Many thanks Torsten, appreciate you replying

Re: SPP and Post Production

Masi0710 — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 09:59:23 GMT

Dear Torsten,

I have DL380p gen8 servers, on the 07/01/2015 and some were on 02/10/2014. I tried upgrading to the SPP of next release ie; 2016 and 2017 SPPs. However, its not upgrading bios to the next level. I still see the same bios 07/01/2015.

I tried upgrading bios to the latest one available for gen8 could failed to upgrade.

** CRITICAL ** Online ROM Flash Component for Windows - HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 (P70) Servers Type: BIOS (Entitlement Required) - System ROM Version: 2018.01.22(2 Mar 2018) Operating System(s): Microsoft Windows Server 2008 W32 | View all File name: cp034953.exe (2.4 MB)

Kindly help me how to upgrade the BIOS.

Thank you.

Re: SPP and Post Production

Torsten. — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 14:34:33 GMT

did you run the cp034953.exe file on top of windows?

Re: SPP and Post Production

Masi0710 — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 14:55:02 GMT

Yes, i tried running inside the OS " cp034953.exe" the BIOS is not updating with the attached error. However, when i run the SPP its taking other components and BIOS still reflecting the old one.

Thanks and Appreciate your quick reply.

Re: SPP and Post Production

Torsten. — Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:02:08 GMT

The reason is printed there - the driver is not loaded.

Re: SPP and Post Production

Masi0710 — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 08:07:24 GMT

Dear Torsten,

Many thanks for your help,

I had to install the ILO3/4 driver "cp030671.exe" prior to " cp034953.exe " . It works like a champ.

Appreciate your help!

Regards,

Syed.