After adding the basline, that took about a half hour 45 minutes, I used it to analyze what updates I needed. I have a ESXi host, with no vCenter so I set it to detect by iLO, you'll need the iLO IP address and credentials. Tell you the truth I just set it up last week after spending two days reading the manual, how to guides, and so on. The 7.5.1 manual, read from front to back trust me you'll need to. Set up how to detect your HP servers, iLO, Windows credentials, WMware vCenter. Download and run, runs in web browser.Ĭan be run on localhost, what HP deems the server to be upgraded, or run on another computer and update 'nodes'.ĭownload the latest SPP and place it into the 'Baseline'. This is what we use for customer server builds where no O/S is installed.

You can make the disk bootable and have it upgrade firmware that way, but you need to select Linux firmware updates as the bootable disks use a linux environment. I'm basing my comments on Windows version of HPE SUM as we use windows servers only. So then you burn the ISO to a DVD/USB and run HPE SUM from it and inventory your Proliant and select which components to upgrade (firmware/drivers/software). The downloadable SPP includes Windows/Linux drivers/software etc.Īlso, this is great as the standard SPP you download from HPE.com is a point in time upgrade, current version although released earlier in 2016, most components are end of 2015, so this custom package has the latest versions of the components. This is likely to give you a smaller ISO file that can fit onto a single layer DVD. Ensure you select to include HPE SUM ( Smart Update Manager) which is a standalone tool to inventory and upgrade your node (server). So here you can filter and select Firmware, Drivers and Software and then for operating systems Linux/Windows. If you have a HPE Passport login you can create a custom SPP (HPE's Service Pack for Proliant) package - Opens a new window

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