Installing SPP to DL380 Gen10

[jscooper22]

Hi,

I run an esxi 7 server on an HP380 Gen10. I'm installing P52581_001_gen10spp-2022.09.01.00-SPP2022090100.2022_0930.1.iso in Offline Mode tomorrow. I'm planning on mountng the iso as Virtual Media through ILO, checking "Boot on Next Reset." I don't have vMotion (yet) so I'm just going to shut down all the VMs and put it into maintenace mode. Anything I should watch for besides just letting it go in automatic mode and do its thing? I tested the mounting and it sees the url.

Thanks,

Jeff

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[jscooper22]

Thanks. I'm installing v7 so not worried about v6. Wondering if there'll be an issue since I'm mounting and booting the image from CD/DVD as virtuial media from a URL in ILO.

I did make a usb key with the iso. So hopefully I can boot from that at startup. But if not (I had problems with usb boot back when I originally installed ESXI), hopefully I can use the virtual image.

Thanks,

Jeff

[jscooper22 · Accepted solution]

Turns out I didn't need to use virtual media. Running usbkey.exe from the [ISO]\USB created a bootable usb that worked. I had previously just copied all the files from the ISO to a fat32 drive, but I guess this program does something else to make the DL380 see it as bootable. I didn't know this was a thing until I stumbled on a post last night (as an aside: I'd pay real momey for HP to publish a "explain it like I'm an end-user" step-by-step to getting updates pushed out so i don't have to get lucky at finding the right blog post).

I just inserted it into the (non ILO) USB port and used boot options to choose it on startup. A few hair-raising moments as parts of the updare paused for quite a while and the machine rebooted a few times. Whole process took abou 35/40 minutes.

Next month I'll try my luck with a vSphere/ESXI update. Had a few weekend warriors show up this morning so I didn't want to keep the servers down any longer.

Thanks,

Jeff