Betreff: Baffled By Updating

[jscooper22]

Hi,

I've spent days looking through this site and various google results, wth no luck. Hoping someone can point me in the right direction. The machine I'll be discussing hosts many of our in-house servers.

I have a DL380 Gen10, Firmware v2.65, VMware ESXi, 7.0.3, 19482537.

I would like to update my server so everything is up to date. I'm assuming this means

• bringing iLO up to 2.78.
• bringing ESXI up to 7.0.3, 20842708 (I think that's the latest. It's the version running on another smaller ProLiant that I installed from scratch recently using the ESXI installer pointed to by HP).

Prior to updating esxi (actually, Remediation via vSphere), I see a warning in Hardware Compatibility that my i350 GB NICs are incompatible with ESXI 7.0.3. Yet my NICs obviously work, so that information is inaccurate (as alluded to by someone on the VMWARE forums), 

I was going to remediate, but paused because I'm not sure if there are other hardware incompatibilties that VMware isn't reporting. So I thought I should update my firmware with P52581_001_gen10spp-2022.09.01.00-SPP2022090100.2022_0930.1, but I see warning about making sure my drivers are up to date and I cannot find anything at vmware about what specific drivers it's installing or here at HP about what specific drivers it needs.

So (to make a long story longer), what is the proper, offically sanctioned method for upgrading these servers with ESXI 7 installed? I see all sorts of possibilities, from just updating iLO firmware through iLO, to booting from a flash drive and doing it in offline mode to update everything, to running ./launch_sum.sh (which the ReadMe says is linux but maybe it works in ESXI to?) in online mode, without any explaination of why I would/should choose one over the other. Is there a straight forward step-by-step "Here's what to do to update your server" page I'm not seeing?

Also, should I update esxi first and THEN the firmware (assuming the latest esxi contains the latest drivers) or do it the other way around.

Much appreciation for any help and tips.

Thanks,

Jeff

[Cali · Accepted solution]

Hi Jeff,

you inspired me to write a Blog about this, maybe this helps you:

HPE SPP Update with SUM and ESX

Cali

[jscooper22]

@Cali 

Thanks but the link takes me to a german wordpress builder site.

[jscooper22]

Link works now THANK YOU!

Jeff