Just like clockwork, the day VMware releases a major update to ESXi, HP releases customized installation media the same day. Hard to beat such great and timely support for your VMware environment! Last week VMware released vSphere 5.1 Update 1, and also posted was the HP ESXi 5.1 update 1...
For those of you with HP ProLiant servers in your environment, you know that on a quarterly basis HP releases a new "HP Service Pack for ProLiant", which is a combo ISO of firmware, drivers, and tools for your ProLiant rackmount and blade servers. It's very important to keep firmware...
Very quietly HP has released a product called VMware SmartComponents for Insight Control for vCenter. What is that you may ask? Very good question, as I had no idea either and I try to keep up with HP firmware as much as possible. In short, given the right supported environment,...
Just released is the October 2012 HP Service Pack for ProLiant, which has full support for Windows Server 2012. Current support for Windows Server 2012 is focused on G7 and Gen8 servers. G6s and earlier will have limited to no WS2012 support. The 2012.10.0 release has these major changes: Added support for...
Today while trying to download the latest HP customized VMware ESXi Installation I found a download page that I previously wasn't aware of. It's a one stop shop for HP ESXi 4.x, 5.0 and 5.1 customized ISO images. The 5.x links point directly to VMware download locations, so you don't have...
HP has released a new version (2012.08.0)Â of their "HP Service Pack for ProLiant", a Sept 2012 revision. For those of you unfamiliar with their packaging changes, this is a consolidated bootable ISO that does both offline and online firmware/driver updates. It really simplifies the updating of HP firmware on ProLiant...
A few days ago VMware released an updated custom HP ISO image for ESXi 5.0 Update 1, which includes all of the HP specific drivers and agents. The big difference between this release and prior HP ESXi 5.0 releases is that you can download them directly from VMware and not...
Yes, it's that time of year for HP to release their updated HP Service Pack for ProLiant, which is now up to version 2012.06.0 (B). You can find the 514 page release notes (yes that is not a typo, 514 pages) here. This update includes a number of fixes to...
UPDATE 10/26/12: A new blog post with updated links is here.HP just released their June 2012 VMware ESXi 4.1 U2 and ESXi 5.0 U1 ISO installation media. Nearly every driver in this custom ISO has been updated from the previous release. You can find the entire driver set versions here....
For all of you HP Bladesystem customers, here's a heads up that HP released v3.60 of their Virtual Connect firmware package. You can download the full Release Notes here. Take note that this release fixes a couple of security issues, so even if the bug fixes don't apply to you,...