HPE DL380 Gen10 ESXI 6.7 & vCenter/vSphere hardware information.

[JoeMadden1989]

Hi all,

We have the following equipment which we have installed ESXI 6.7 on to.

DL360 Gen 10 (vCenter)

2 X DL380 Gen10 with

HPE Smart Array P408i-p - 6X 900Gb Disks in Raid 1+0 + 1 900Gb Online Spare

HPE Smart Array P408i-a SR - 2X 300Gb Disks in Raid 1 + 1 300Gb Online Spare

onboard Nics (4) and 366FLR 4-Port NIC (8 in total)

I have used the HPE Custom ISO July 2018 for Esxi 6.7 for the installation and vCenter.

Having installed all the devices, and have them connected and synced to the vCenter. I can see everything is working, i am able to create/use datastores on the arrays, nics function normally. System status is green with no alarms on the system itself.

I have a couple of issues which are:

• systems keep alarming with "status of other host hardware objects" alarm.
• No hardware status of disks or logical arrays
• Nics continually warn due to no cable connected (See attached screenshot - I assume these are NICs as only have port 1 connected at the moment.)

I have followed this article: VMware Knowledge Base which has not resolved my issue.

Does anyone know if:

• Would the Nics being in warning state cause "status of other host hardware objects" alarm?
• What should i try to resolve the issue with no logical array or hardware status of the disk?

Thank you for any assistance.

Joe.

[SupreetK]

Looks like this is a known issue with the HPE iLO firmware -

VMware Knowledge Base​

https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-a00053955en_us​

Cheers,

Supreet

[diegodco31 · Accepted solution]

The issue occurs if you have ILO5 firmware version 1.30. Downgrading the version to 1.20 resolves the issue.

See:

HP BL460c Gen 10 - vCenter 6.5 U2c

6.5 shows warning for hardware

[JoeMadden1989]

Ah!

Thank you.

I'll wait for the next firmware release and confirm it has been resolved when that is released.

Thanks

Joe.

[JoeMadden1989]

Can confirm that iLO version 1.20 also fixes the issue - I'm running that one of my systems at the moment to check the issue.

We still don't get any disk information like we used to int he Status Monitoring tab - A limitation with the web client?

We do get the system UID warning which i guess is sufficient to let us know there is a problem and go looking in the ilo.

I've attached a screenshot of what im used to seeing in ESXI 4.1 - Seems like the webclient has gone slightly backwards?

Cheers

Joe.