HP Intelligent Provisioning Release Notes HP Part Number: 680065-004 Published: October 2012 Edition: 5
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Version: 1.30 Description Intelligent Provisioning is one of the embedded management features of the HP iLO Management Engine, and is a single-server deployment tool embedded in all HP ProLiant Gen8 servers. Intelligent Provisioning supplies most drivers required for your operating system. Intelligent Provisioning replaces the SmartStart CDs and Smart Update Firmware DVD shipped with previous generation HP ProLiant servers. The CDs and DVD do not ship with HP ProLiant Gen8 servers.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T • SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for x86 • SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 11 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T • SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for x86 • SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 10 for AMD64 and Intel EM64T • VMware ESX 4.1 • VMware ESXi 4.1 • VMware ESXi 5.0 • VMware ESXi 5.
Known issues and suggested actions HP strongly recommends that the resolutions listed in this document be applied accordingly to instructions in the resolution documents. Failure to do so might result in issues that can cause disruption to the operation and functionality of HP ProLiant servers. This list is updated as new issues are discovered and resolved.
• Settings in the Intelligent Provisioning Preferences screen are saved only after you exit the screen. • In the Perform Maintenance screen, if Insight Diagnostics is double-clicked, a message is displayed, notifying you that you attempted to have two sessions of Insight Diagnostics open at the same time. Suggested action: When selecting menu options in the Perform Maintenance screen, only a single click is necessary. To correct this situation, follow the instructions in the message.
• When saving ACU logs, if the iLO LUN partition is selected, the logs are not accessible. Suggested action: Do not save logs to this partition. • For Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V installations, the installation fails if the Windows standard option is selected in the OS Information screen. Suggested action: When installing Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, be sure to select the Windows Hyper-V option as the OS in the OS Information screen.
Hyper V before installing NCU, but installing NCU is required with this OS, and cannot be excluded. Suggestion action: Install Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 manually, without using Intelligent Provisioning. After adding Hyper V, update with the latest version of SPP.
