HP VMware vSphere 5.5 U1 Customized Image Release Notes for 17 March 2014

4 Important notes and recommendations

The drivers and firmware recipe information for HP ProLiant servers and options can be found at

the following link: http://vibsdepot.hp.com/hpq/recipes.

AMS and Active Health Installation

AMS and Active Health is shipped as part of the HP Custom Image, the HP ESXi Offline Bundle

and the new Agentless Management Service Offline Bundle. The HP Custom Image and the HP

ESXi Offline Bundle also include the HP Insight Management WBEM Providers. The AMS Offline

Bundle only includes the providers required to support online firmware update and SmartArray,

DIMM Status and iLO reporting in vCenter. Customers can manage their ProLiant servers using

Agentless Management without installing the AMS Offline Bundle. Only customers who intend to

manage their ProLiant servers using only Agentless Management and do not need the full set of

HP Insight Management WBEM Providers installed should install the AMS Offline Bundle. See the

Deploying and updating vSphere 5.0 on Proliant servers white paper for more information.

If the customer has vSphere 5.5 U1 and is currently using HP Insight Management WBEM Providers

for ESXi and requires Agentless Management and does not need the full set of providers installed,

they need to perform the following step:

• Install the AMS Offline Bundle to replace the HP ESXi Offline Bundle

If the customer has vSphere 5.5 U1 and is currently using Agentless Management and does not

have the full providers installed and wants to move to using HP Insight Management WBEM

Providers for vSphere, they need to perform the following step:

• Install the HP vSphere Offline Bundle to replace the AMS Offline Bundle.

System Memory required for installing vSphere 5.5 U1 Customized Image

VMware vSphere will not install on an HP Gen8 server with 4 GB or less system memory. Although

VMware’s stated minimum installation requirement is 4 GB of system memory, HP’s Gen8 platforms

do not expose enough of the 4 GB of system memory to the operating system, causing the installation

to fail. This issue is resolved by populating the system with more than 4 GB of memory.

HP Dynamic Smart Array Controllers (B120i and B320i) cannot be used as the target for a core

dump

SAS WWIDs for B120i controllers will be non-unique

AMS Fixes

• Fix memory leak issue

• Fix issue of not reporting ATA Disk Drive Status Change trap

• Fix excessive logging of elxnet warnings in vmkernel log when an Emulex NIC/CNA, and a

QLogic CNA configured as NIC-iSCSI are installed on the system.

HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for VMWare ESXi Fail to show information for Certain

NIC Controllers

HP Insight Management WBEM provider for ESXi platform fails to get the Vendor and Product

Name for NC550m & NC553m and CN1000E & NC552SFP Controllers.

FC HBA Indications are not received when the cable from the Virtual Connect Switch is disconnected

On a blade server with FC Flex Fabric adapters 554FLB/554M as NIC-FCOE, no events are

generated by HP WBEM provider for ESXi after unplugging the cable from the Virtual Connect

switch. FC Port State is also reported as OK, though it is in virtual link down state.

HP Insight Management WBEM Providers Software May Stop Responding When Embedded NICs

Are Disabled on Proliant G6 (or Earlier) Servers Running VMware ESXi 5.x

Fixed the issue where , HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for VMware ESXi stop responding

when the embedded NIC on a Proliant server is disabled in the ROM-Based Setup Utility (RBSU)