HP VMware ESXi 5.1 U2 Customized Image Release Notes for June 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 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 5.1 U2 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 5.1 U2 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.

AMS Fixes

• Improved fix for memory leak issue

System Memory required for installing vSphere 5.1 U2 Customized Image

VMware vSphere will not install on an HP Gen8 server with 2 GB or less system memory. Although

VMware’s stated minimum installation requirement is 2 GB of system memory, HP’s Gen8 platforms

do not expose enough of the 2 GB of system memory to the operating system, causing the installation

to fail. This issue is resolved by populating the system with more than 2 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

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.

HP ProLiant Servers: HP Smart Array Controllers - Out-of-Memory Condition May Lead to a Server

Halt and Purple Screen Under VMware ESXi 5.0, 5.1, or 5.5 After Upgrading to HP Smart Array

Controller Driver (hpsa) Version 5.x.0.58-1

This version of the HP Customized image includes the HP Smart Array Controller Driver (hpsa)

Version 5.x.0.60-1 which fixes the issue. The link to the customer Advisory describes the condition

in more detail and is located at http://h20564.www2.hp.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/

docDisplay/?docId=c04302261.

HP Insight Management WBEM Providers for VMWare ESXi Fails to Provide System Information

HP Insight Management WBEM provider for ESXi platform fails to return the values for the provider

queries due to Intermittent Provider Crash when the client tries to query Ethernet Data.

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