Tuesday, February 6, 2018

Don't use HPE custom VMware installer if you want to stay secure with VMware Update Manager.

Prevent VMware purple screens of death. Do not use HPE custom installer.

HPE support states that if you use their custom VMware cd you should only update to their next update cd. Negating the use of VUM from Vcenter. Therefore to stay secure with the latest VMware patches you should not use the HPE installer.

Also intelligent provision sometimes misses updates and I was told to use their firmware cd, Service Pack for ProLiant, to obtain them.

Remember that your bios and iLo version should match what is listed in the latest HPE recipe, http://vibsdepot.hpe.com/hpq/recipes/