Proliant Management from ESXi

[CTSTech]

On psysical Servers, we install the HP System Managment software that allows us to check hardware etc.  We are trying to activate Write Caching on the Server remotely - we used to be able to do this with the HP Array Configuration Utility.

Is this still possible from ESXi, installing the software on a VM?  Or will we have to take down the Server and boot from CD to enable the write caching in the Array Configuration Utility?

[peetz · Accepted solution]

This is not possible through a VM, because a VM does not have direct access to the physical hardware of the host.

There are two methods though to achieve what you are looking for:

1. a fully supported one: With the Offline ACU (that means taking down the host), see http://v-front.blogspot.com/2012/01/hard-to-find-hp-tools-offline-array.html

2. an unsupported one: by running the Linux version of hpacucli in the ESXi shell (without any host downtime!), see http://v-front.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-to-run-hp-online-acu-cli-for-linux.html

- Andreas

[CTSTech]

Great, that's just what I needed.  Thanks!