Updating Firmware on HP Proliant?

[jrh910]

How do you upgrade the firmware on your HP Proliant servers? We have

around 70 HP Proliant ML370 G5 ESX 3.5 hosts running various versions

of BIOS and firmware levels. I know it's possible to boot up to the

firmware upgrade CD on each host and run the update manually, but that

certainly doesn't strike me as an "enterprise ready" solution. I hear

about companies with 100+ hosts and I can't believe they run around

with CD's or sit around booting from the iLOs to keep things up to

date.

Any ideas?

[madda]

A moderator will move the thread, there isn't a need to restart the thread

[Lightbulb]

You can use HP VCRM (http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c00293365/c00293365.pdf?jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN) to apply some Firmware updates RAID controllers and BIOS but not all devices are supported by this method.

What I do is use ILO to mount the Firmware ISOs and by this means I can perform Firmware updates on several systems at once from a central location (No walking). This assumes that you have an out of band network setup.

[BUGCHK]

No ready-to-use solution, but anyway:

- PXE Boot Image from an ISO

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1007139