HP VMware Utilities User Guide VMware vSphere 5.1U2 and 5.
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Contents 1 Introduction...............................................................................................4 Installing offline bundles on an vSphere 5.1 and updates host using vSphere CLI 5.0 esxcli utility........4 Prerequisites........................................................................................................................4 Installing offline bundles on an vSphere 5.1 and updates host using VMware vCenter Update Manager....................................................
1 Introduction This section provides information about the utilities supported on VMware vSphere 5.1 and updates. The following utilities are supported on VMware vSphere 5.1 and updates host: • HPONCFG — Command line utility used for obtaining and setting ProLiant iLO configurations. • HPBOOTCFG — Command line utility used for configuring ProLiant server boot order. • HPSSACLI – Command line utility used for configuration and diagnostics of ProLiant server SmartArrays.
HPONCFG utility The HPONFCG utility only supports HP ProLiant 300/500/700/900 Server series, 100 Series Gen8 servers, and HP ProLiant BL Servers that are listed in the vSphere Server Support Matrix. To visit the vSphere Server Matrix page, go to www.hp.com/go/vmware and select Certified ProLiants under Tools/Resource section. HP offers support for the iLO 2, iLO 3 and iLO 4 features available on ProLiant servers with the HPONCFG utility.
Table 1 hponcfg Command Line Arguments (continued) Argument Function -r, - -reset This argument resets the iLO 2, iLO 3 or iLO 4 to factory defaults. -h, - -help, - -? These arguments display simple help messages. HPONCFG return codes This section provides description about the return code after running the command. Table 2 hponcfg return codes Value Meaning -1 ERROR: A general system error detected while running HPONCFG 0 Script succeeded.
PAGE 8The requested information is returned in the log file, which, in this example, is named log.txt.
Server Serial Number: x.x.x.x x.x.x.x – As per customer’s environment. To set the minimum firmware level, run the following command: /opt/hp/tools # ./hponcfg —m 2 The following output is displayed: Firmware Revision = 2.05 Device type = iLO 2 Driver name = hpilo HPBOOTCFG utility The hpbootcfg utility only supports HP ProLiant 300/500/700/900 Server series, 100 Series Gen8 servers, and HP ProLiant BL Servers that are listed in the vSphere Server Support Matrix.
The following output is displayed: Usage: esxcli hpbootcfg {cmd} [cmd options] Available Commands: execute execute — hpbootcfg command with options parameter help — show hpbootcfg help show — show current hpbootcfg settings To view the current boot settings, run the following command: # esxcli hpbootcfg show This System only support BIOS/Legacy boot.
Additional references to HP Smart Storage Administrator guides and white papers are available at: http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DocumentIndex.jsp?lang=en&cc=us& contentType=SupportManual&prodTypeId=18964&prodSeriesId=468780&docIndexId=64179. HPSSACLI command-line syntax Using VMware esxcli requires knowledge about the CLI usage. The VMware vSphere command line documentation is available at: http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vcli/.
Example 2 This example shows the detailed configuration information for the SmartArray controller in slot 0. # esxcli –server=”servername or IP” –user=”username” –password”root password” hpssacli cmd -q “controller slot=0 show config detail” The following output is displayed: Smart Array P410i in Slot 0 (Embedded) Bus Interface: PCI Slot: 0 Serial Number: 5001438013A25C90 Cache Serial Number: PBCDF0CRH0J7SD RAID 6 (ADG) Status: Disabled Controller Status: OK Hardware Revision: C Firmware Version: 3.
physicaldrive 1I:1:2 (port 1I:box 1:bay 2, SAS, 146 GB, OK) physicaldrive 1I:1:1 Port: 1I Box: 1 Bay: 1 Status: OK Drive Type: Data Drive Interface Type: SAS Size: 146 GB Rotational Speed: 10000 Firmware Revision: HPDE Serial Number: 6SD3FJVL0000B145MFXB Model: HP EG0146FAWHU Current Temperature (C): 36 Maximum Temperature (C): 46 PHY Count: 2 PHY Transfer Rate: 6.
HPTESTEVENT utility The hptestevent utility allows an application to request, so that the HP Insight Management WBEM Providers generate the Informational Test Indication with ProviderName “HP Test” and EventID 1, and the CPQ SNMP test trap with OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.232.11.2.8.1.0.11003. The HP Insight Management WBEM Providers must be installed, enabled and running on the system where this utility is executed. The WBEM Providers must be configured to send indications to the listener.
HPTESTEVENT command-line examples This section provides sample examples to run the utility. Table 9 hptestevent command-line examples Command-line Description /opt/hp/tools/hptestevent Run command directly on the ESXi host esxcli hptestevent execute Use esxcli to run the command HP CONREP utility The conrep utility reads the state of the system environment settings to determine an HP Proliant server configuration and writes the results to an XML data file.
Table 10 CONREP command line arguments (continued) Command-line Argument Description -x filename This argument defines the name and location of the XML hardware definition file. . The default file is /op/hp/ tools/conrep.xml. If conrep is not run from directory /opt/hp/tools, this option must be used. -f filename This argument defines the name and location of the system configuration data file. The default file is conrep.dat. -h This argument displays help information.
[ProLiant BL] match Saving configuration data to conrep.dat Conrep Return Code: 0 The conrep.dat is created in /vmfs/volumes/mytoolsdir. Following is an example of usage for HP ProLiant servers to extract the BIOS settings from a BL465 Gen8 server and save the configuration to a "BL465conrep.dat" data file: NOTE: BL465conrep.xml is a copy of /opt/hp/tools/conrep.xml. Following example shows how to pass non-default file names. /opt/hp/tools # ./conrep -s -x BL465conrep.xml -f BL465conrep.dat conrep 4.0.0.
Loading configuration data from BL465conrep.dat Conrep Return Code: 0 CONREP data file sample contents for HP ProLiant servers The conrep.dat file contents the ROM section tags and values. You can view this file using the ROM Based Setup Utility (RBSU). See the ROM Based Setup Utility User Guide available at http:// www.hp.com. A sample content of the data file generated by conrep is similar to the following:
