After reviewing the at HP Discover, I wanted to walk through the steps required to upgrade a c7000 BladeSystem running vSphere ESXi 5 blades. This post assumes you have an HP Passport ID and administrative access to your BladeSystem enclosure, along with a Windows PC to run the SUM installer on. Obtaining SUM You’ll need to snag the latest Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) for your first time. At the time of this writing, the latest SPP is 2012.06.0 and can be obtained from: Make sure to snag the SPP zipped ISO file with the latest build – it should look something like this. Continue on to the download page (requires signing in with your HP Passport ID) and choose to either download directly or use a download manager.

The SPP file is roughly 1.9 GB in size, zipped; If you plan on extracting the ISO instead of burning it, plan on having 5 or so GB of free space to work with. Entrepreneurial Finance Smith Pdf Printer. Once downloaded, I opted to extract the zip into an ISO, and then extract the ISO into a folder. I then deleted all of the files except for the extracted folder. Getting Started At this point, you are encouraged to run the Start.htm file located in the root directory. It provides a sort of landing page to the EULA and location of the Windows and Linux installers. I’m sure you love reading EULAs, but if you want to skip ahead just fire up: hpswpackageshpsum.exe You’ll be greated with a splash screen for HP SUM.

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You’ll get a welcome screen with a lot of information on SUM, the screens, and new features. Browse at your leisure, then click next.

Source Selections The first step is to determine your source selections, which are repositories to use for updating components. The scope of this walkthrough is a c7000 BladeSystem enclosure, so I am sticking with the “Default” repository that points to the SPP on disk. For a Windows server, you may want to go in and configure the various components with credentials and access information. I didn’t bother checking for the latest updates from ftp.hp.com because I knew the SPP I downloaded was very recently released.

Select Targets Now that a repository has been prepared, some targets must be selected. I’ll put in the IP of the primary Onboard Administrator (OA) of my c7000 enclosure. Hp Precisionscan Lt Software Scanjet 4200c. You won’t need to discover the standby OA; the updates will occur for both components.

After clicking OK, SUM will start a discovery process. The results should show associated targets for you to select. In my case, it found the Virtual Connect Manager and the three blade iLO addresses. Now, SUM will start investigating the blade iLO addresses and possibly ask you for credentials to Virtual Connect by showing a status of “Need Credentials”. Make sure to click on Virtual Connect, press the “Edit Target” button, and enter credentials. You don’t need to discover any other Virtual Connect modules, they will be updated. Review / Install Updates The final screen reviews all of the various components that were set as targets previously.