HP (Hewlett-Packard) ESXi 5.0 U1 manual

HP VMw ar e Utiliti es U ser Gui de VMw ar e E SX i 5 . 0 U1 f or Mar c h 20 1 2 HP P ar t Number : 6 7 05 5 7 -002 P ublished: Marc h 20 1 2 E dition: 1[...]

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C ont ents 1 Intr oducti on...............................................................................................4 Installing o ffline bundles on an E SXi 5 .0 and u pdates hos t using vSpher e CLI 5 .0 e sxc li utility.............4 Pr er equisites ...........................................................................................[...]

1 Intr oducti on This s ectio n pro vide s infor mation abo ut the utilities su pported on VMwar e ESX i 5. 0 and updates. The f ollo w ing utilities ar e supported on VMwar e E SXi 5 .0 and updat es host: • HP ONCFG — C ommand line utility used fo r obtaining and setting Pr oL iant iL O confi gur ations . • HPBOO T CFG — C ommand line util[...]

HP off ers suppo r t fo r the iL O 2 , iL O 3 and iL O 4 featur es a vailable on Pr oLi ant serve rs w ith the HPONCFG utility . HPONCFG is an online conf igur ation t ool used to s et up and r econfi gure iL O 2 , iL O3 and iL O 4 w ithout r equir ing a r eboot of the serv er oper ating sy ste m. T he utility runs in a command-line mode and mus t [...]

T abl e 2 hponcfg retur n codes (contin ued) Meaning V alue The iL O flash is still in pr ogress . 3 The s cr ipt is unable to cr eate an output f ile . 2 5 5 If the sc ript its elf fails , err ors ar e repo r ted in the log f ile cr eated b y HPONCFG . HP ONCFG co mmand file con tents The hponcfg co mmand can be used to perf orm the f ollo wing t [...]

USER_NAME="Administrator" USER_LOGIN="Administrator" PASSWORD=""> </ADD_USER> <ADD_USER USER_NAME="Landy9" USER_LOGIN="mandy9" PASSWORD=""> </ADD_USER> <RESET_RIB VALUE="Y"/> </HPONCFG> F or sec urity rea sons, the u ser pass wor ds are not r etur[...]

</USER_INFO> </LOGIN> </RIBCL> The s pec ified u ser w ill be added to the de vi ce . HP ONCFG co mmand-line ex amples This s ectio n pro vide s sample e xample s to run the utility . T abl e 3 hponcfg command-line e xamples Description Command-line argument This ar gument displa ys he lp infor mation. hponcfg -h This ar gument r [...]

T abl e 4 hpbootcfg Command L ine Arguments (con tinued) Function Argument Sets R OM-Based Se tup Utility (RBS U) as the boot dev ice f or the cur re nt boot -R Sets P XE client as the boo t dev ice for the c urr ent boot -P Sets r emote conf igur ation as the boot de vi ce for the c urr ent boot -r Sets r emote dial o ut as the boot dev ice for th[...]

T abl e 6 hpbootcfg command-line e x amples Description Command-line argument This ar gument displa ys he lp infor mation. /opt/hp/tools/hpbootcfg -h This ar gument se ts the default v alues. /opt/hp/tools/hpbootcfg -D HP A CUCLI utility The HPACUCLI u tilit y supports HP Pr oL iant 300/5 00/7 00 and Blade server s with in tegrat ed SmartArr ay con[...]

Ex ample 1 This e xample sho ws the inf ormati on about all the SmartAr ra y contr oller on the s erver . esxcli – server= ” servername or IP ” – user= ” username ” – password= ” root password ” hpacucli cmd – q hpacucli cmd -q “ controller all show status ” The f ollo w ing output is displa y ed: Smart Array P212 in Slot 9 [...]

Logical Drive: 1 Size: 136.7 GB Fault Tolerance: RAID 1 Heads: 255 Sectors Per Track: 32 Cylinders: 35132 Strip Size: 256 KB Full Stripe Size: 256 KB Status: OK Array Accelerator: Enabled Unique Identifier: 600508B1001CB65083D63C5E781ABF65 Disk Name: vmhba2:C0:T0:L1 Mount Points: None Logical Drive Label: A00D1AF35001438013A25C90F0BA Mirror Group 0[...]

Firmware Revision: HPDE Serial Number: 6SD3FK4A0000B145J6JK Model: HP EG0146FAWHU Current Temperature (C): 37 Maximum Temperature (C): 48 PHY Count: 2 PHY Transfer Rate: 6.0GBPS, Unknown ... The se e xample s are n ot inclusi ve of all the capa bilities o f the HPACUCLI command. C ommands and options f or additio nal operati ons using the HPACUCLI [...]

2 Suppo r t and other r es our ces This c hapter pr ov ides inf ormation a bout the contac t details and r efe rence doc uments. C ontac ting HP This s ectio n pro vide s infor mation abo ut the pre req uisites to be v erif ied befo re con tacting HP and mechanism su pported by the or ganiz ation f or shar ing the feedbac k. Bef or e yo u contac t [...]

Ne w and c hanged inf ormati on in this editi on Cur r ent edition o f the docume nt pr ov ides inf ormation a bout the HPACUCLI utility supported on the ESXi v ersio n 5 .0 and u pdates platfo rm . R elated inf or matio n F ollo w ing docume nts and web sites pr o vi de relat ed infor mation: Doc uments F ollo w ing docume nts are su pported for t[...]

W ARNING A w arning calls attenti on to important inf ormati on that if not unders tood or fo llow ed will r esult in per sonal inj ur y or nonr eco ver able sy stem pr oblems. CA UTION A cauti on calls attentio n to important inf ormati on that if not unders tood or f ollow ed will r esult in data lo ss, dat a corr uption , or damage to har d war [...]

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