Well, I got the HP side of things to work. I updated updated the firmware via HPE SPP Offline Mode and it worked!

I'll run the VMWare updates in the next few weeks (I have people in the office today who want to work).

Seems keeping them separate (let HP do the firmware side of things and VMware take care of the OS) is the way to go.

Now I'm getting errors in Lifecycle Manager, but I'll post those separately.

Thanks,

Jeff