While installing new HP BL460c Gen8’s (Xeon E5-2680 v2) we discovered some strange behavior while setting the HP Power Profile setting to “Maximum Performance”. It appears that this setting causes the ESXi 5.1 Installer to not see the Internal SD-Card as storage device anymore. Default BIOS Settings give us this, which is good:
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BL460c Gen8: Not detecting SD-Card during ESXi 5.1 Installation
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on August 7, 2014
https://virtualkenneth.com/2014/08/07/bl460-detecting-sd-card-esxi-5-1-installation/
Unresponsive HP Virtual Connect Manager – vcutil
After rebooting several Virtual Connect Modules to test the failover behaviors I got myself in a situation in were the Virtual Connect Manager got completely unresponsive. In my case the vcutil from HP eventually solved my problem so I want to give some more information on this tool since I only knew it as a Virtual […]
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on December 24, 2009
https://virtualkenneth.com/2009/12/24/unresponsive-hp-virtual-connect-manager-vcutil/
Testing Scenario's VMware / HP c-Class Infrastructure
Since my blog about Understanding HP Flex-10 Mappings with VMware ESX/vSphere is quite a big hit (seeing the page views per day) I decided to also write about the testing scenario’s which should all be walked through before taking a design as this into production. In my blog I stated: Last word of advice: while implementing […]
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on December 4, 2009
https://virtualkenneth.com/2009/12/04/testing-scenarios-vmware-hp-c-class-infrastructure/
Understanding HP Flex-10 Mappings with VMware ESX/vSphere
I’ve written this blog as an add-on to Frank Denneman’s blog about Flex-10 which you can find over here. Goal of this blog is to get a clear vision about the Flex-10 port mappings that HP uses to facilitate their blades with NIC’s, with the special focus towards VMware ESX/vSphere. If you are looking for the HP FlexFabric mappings […]
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on November 4, 2009
https://virtualkenneth.com/2009/11/04/understanding-hp-flex-10-mappings-with-vmware/
HP c-Class Infrastructure come in handys
I’ve been working with HP c-Class infrastructure components (Onboard Administrator and Virtual Connect) for a few years now and collected some useful commands that helped me out several times while doing new installations or maintenance. Update all Blade iLO firmware’s from the OA CLI OA with connection to the Internet: Logon to the Onboard Administrator with […]
Posted by Kenneth van Ditmarsch on September 10, 2009
https://virtualkenneth.com/2009/09/10/hp-c-class-infrastructure-come-in-handys/
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