MicroServer Gen8 is noisy

[paulgear]

Is there a special trick to getting the upload working (e.g. use IE 6 or something equally painful)? I've tried in both Firefox and Chromium on Linux and neither results in a successful image upload. Firefox dies straight away, and Chromium just hangs after the upload has churned along to 100%.

[Jimmy Vance]

The upload should work just fine using any recent browser.  I just did the upload from from SLES 11 system and Ubuntu 13.10

[Marcus Rejås]

My progress.

I downloaded the firmware, no problem with Iceweasel on Debian. I made it executable with:

chmod 755 CP021718.scexe

Then executable with:

chmod 755 CP021718.scexe

This gave me the file CPQJ0612.B69 (among others).

Logged in to iLO and uploaded it there. Rebooted the machine.

Im running Debian on the Microserver with 4 disks in RAID5 (software). I'm running Xen with 4 domU's on it. The fan speed went from 34% down to 21% with all 4 guests running but almost idle. The noice is much better. I can still hear it, it is louder than my older Microservers, but to be honest I can hear my laptop more. I have the Microserver on my desk now, but I think I will not notice it if I place it on the floor or just a litte bit away from me.

Thanks!

  /Marcus

[Marcus Rejås]

For some reason I missed the unpack section ....

I downloaded the firmware, no problem with Iceweasel on Debian. Then:

Executable:

chmod 755 CP021718.scexe

Unpack:

./CP021718.scexe --unpack=.

This gave me the file CPQJ0612.B69 which I uploaded via the iLO web gui.

Sorry for missing the unpack part ....

[Oscar A. Perez]

Paulgear,

What iLO4 version do you have?  Only iLO4 versions 1.30 and later support flashing the ROM image using the iLO webGUI Firmware flash page.

Have you tried the ROMPaq and creating a bootable USB key instead?

[TeoCiontu]

Guys, is this official HP release or a bootleg ROM ? 

thanks

[Oscar A. Perez]

It is an official ROM.  It will hit the web as soon as the new SPP gets released next month.

[TeoCiontu]

Oscar Thx for the info. 

[paulgear]

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@Oscar A. Perez wrote:

Paulgear,

What iLO4 version do you have?  Only iLO4 versions 1.30 and later support flashing the ROM image using the iLO webGUI Firmware flash page.

Have you tried the ROMPaq and creating a bootable USB key instead?

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Hi Oscar,

That might be the issue.  Mine says it's "1.20 Feb 01 2013".  It certainly claims to support web-based upgrades through Administration -> iLO Firmware, but perhaps it's buggy.

Where can I find instructions about how to make the bootable USB key?

[Jimmy Vance]

Paul, get the file in the ROMPAQ directory from the ftp link. Might be easier to just upgrade your iLO to the latest firmware version

https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/km/search#q=ilo&t=All&sort=relevancy&numberOfResults=25