HP VMware vSphere 5.5 U1 Customized Image Release Notes for December 2014
Abstract
This document provides the latest release information for HP VMware vSphere 5.5 U1 Customized Image.
HP Part Number: 737911-401
Published: December 2014
Edition: 1
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Contents
1 Navigation tips..........................................................................................4
2 HP VMware vSphere 5.5 U1 Customized Image.............................................5
3 New and updated in this release..................................................................6
4 Important notes and recommendations..........................................................7
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1 Navigation tips
Navigating to documentation on the HP website
• From the URLs in this guide, you may need to make several selections to get to your specific
server documentation.
• For online access to technical documentation, self-help resources, live chat assistance,
community forums of IT experts, technical knowledge base, remote monitoring and diagnostic
tools, go to http://www.hp.com/support (http://www.hp.com/support).
• For the latest versions of selected technical documentation, go to
http://www.hp.com/go/bizsupport (http://www.hp.com/go/bizsupport).
4 Navigation tips
2 HP VMware vSphere 5.5 U1 Customized Image
The HP vSphere 5.5 U1 Customized Image includes the following:
• HP Management Tools:
UEFI platform support◦
◦ HP CIM Providers
◦ HP NMI Driver
◦ HP iLO Driver
◦ HP CRU Driver
◦ HPONCONFG Utility
◦ HPBOOTCFG Utility
◦ HPSSACLI Utility
◦ HPTESTEVENT utility
• VMware IOVP Certified Device Drivers added to HP vSphere 5.5 U1 installation images for
HP device enablement.
• HP Agentless Management Service (AMS) to support Agentless Management and Active
Health.
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3 New and updated in this release
The new and updated features for the HP vSphere 5.5 U1 Customized Image for December 2014
include:
• Unable to successfully upgrade host using the 5.5 U1 June HP Custom Image
When you try to upgrade to the below 5.5 U1 Custom Image, you will encounter a ‘Conflicting
VIBs Error’ with the bnx2 driver and will not be able to successfully upgrade the host.
◦ VMware-ESXi-5.5.0-Update1-1746018-HP-5.74.27-Jun2014
• Provider Features
◦ Added capability to configure the providers to ignore the status of an unused FC port
• SR-IOV Support
◦ Refer to the HP ProLiant server and option firmware and driver support recipe on http://
vibsdepot.hp.com for the list of supported SR-IOV adapters and drivers.
◦ For additional details on supported servers, Guest Operating Systems, SR-IOV limitations,
configuration steps, and troubleshooting, see the HP White Paper – Implementing SR-IOV
on HP ProLiant Servers with VMware vSphere 5.1
• Utilities features
◦ HPBOOTCFG - Report/Set UEFI or Legacy boot mode
• Support for the Flex-20 technology to stream twice the bandwidth of 10 GB adapters for
virtualized and converged data centers
6 New and updated in this release
4 Important notes and recommendations
This version of the HP Custom Image includes the patch from VMware to address the
CVE-2014-0160 vulnerability (now known as “Heartbleed”) in the open-source OpenSSL toolkit
utilized to encrypt Web communications. The VMware Knowledge Base article related to the
CVE-2014-0160 vulnerability is available at: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/
search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2076225
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.
Unable to successfully upgrade host using the 5.5 U1 June HP Custom Image
When you try to upgrade to the below 5.5 U1 Custom Image, you will encounter a ‘Conflicting
VIBs Error’ with the bnx2 driver and will not be able to successfully upgrade the host.
• VMware-ESXi-5.5.0-Update1-1746018-HP-5.74.27-Jun2014
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 5.5 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
• Improved fix for memory leak issue.
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
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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 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 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
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.
Fixed the issue where HP Insight Management WBEM Providers Fails to show few Properties for
FCHBA Indication
Fixed the issue where, HP Insight Management WBEM provider for VMware ESXi platform fails
to get the values for HWFirmwareVersion, HWLogicalLocation, HWManufacturer, HWSerialNumber,
and DeviceModel for FCHBA Indication.
Broadcom FCoE
The Broadcom FCoE will not have any HP management support enabled in this release. HP
management support will be available in a future release.
8 Important notes and recommendations
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