There are a few best practices when implementing a 3PAR into a vSphere environment. One of these is the creation of a custom PSP-rule. With this set, all 3PAR volumes are automatically configured according to best practices when they get mounted. In this post I will show ways to create this rule. [Update] Because HPE Primera uses same vendor and model description as 3PAR, the […]
Mount HP Blade enclosure DVD on VMs
Mounting a HP BladeSystem enclosure DVD drive on a VM sounds easy. And it is, but it is not that easy as I thought first. Technically it is a USB drive for the host, but it is not possible to pass through the device as a USB drive. This post describes the steps to take for windows VMs (tested for Windows 2008 and 2012), but […]
Detailed stuff about HP 3PAR
This post includes a lot of detailed information of HP 3PAR storage. Most of the stuff is also true for the new 8000 series. But this post is no introduction to 3PAR. You should know 3PAR terminology to get useful information out of this post.
Some basic stuff about HP P4000
Multisite Cluster Multisite-Cluster always syncs synchronously. Gateway connection handles the control traffic Windows systems are connected to the node that holds the data. This because of the DSM driver. For VMware this feature is available for SanIQ >= 12.5 with necessary patch installed for vSphere 5.5 and later. Advantage of Multisite Cluster is that Gateway is always on local site. To be able to failover after […]
Public CA do not allow internal names and reserved IP address any more
With November 2015 public CAs do not issue new certificates that uses internal names or reserved IP addresses in subjectAltName or in commonName. Furthermore such certificates will be revoked on October 1st, 2016. Internal names are hostnames that do not end with an Top Level Domain ending (.com, .de, …). For example: .local, .internal. Also NetBIOS names without any domain extension are affected. Reserved IP addresses are defined […]
HP Bundles are not updated using Update Manager
You probably know that you can add HP VIB Repositorys to VMware vSphere Update Manager. I normally add these links to Update Manager: http://vibsdepot.hp.com/index.xml http://vibsdepot.hp.com/index-drv.xml So you can define an own baseline for HP VIB packages or add them to you already existing baselines. I would recommend the first option.
Configure HP iLO in ESXi console
To configure a HP iLO board you can use a web browser of course. But how to access iLO when you did not set a correct IP address or Administrator password in BIOS using F8 key? Of course you can reboot and enter F8 at boot. But to restart a ESXi host just to enter a iLO IP address is not very elegant. Here I will […]
Update host without Update Manager by using esxcli
This blog post describes how to update respectively install VIBs on hosts without using VMware Update Manager (VUM). Instead of VUM we will use esxcli. esxcli software is a really powerful framework which you can use to keep your hosts up-to-date, install and remove bundles. The commands below are using real repositories and vSphere Installation Bundles (VIBs). These examples should work fine for ESXi 5.x. […]
[HP] bugs you should know about
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This is a list of bugs in HPE hardware and software. These are issues that could harm the availability of your environment. The list is updated irregularly. See this post for VMware bugs you should know about. [October 2017] PROBLEM In a certain constellation of NIC driver (bnx2x) and firmware version, an update of driver version (2.713.30) in ESXi hosts can physically kill a NIC. […]
VMworld2014|14.10.|[VAPP2635-SPO] Best practices for managing your VMware environment with HP integrations
I thought the session would be focused on HP tools and practices to integrate HP servers and storage into vSphere environments for managing, monitoring and installation. But this session was mainly focused on OneView integration into vCenter. HP OneView for VMware vCenter Plug-in to Web Client is available for OneView integration Networking graphical display of network cabling – which is very nice! you can see […]
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