Yes it does. In fact, all the advice and articles here have helped me better wrap my head around what I thought would be a very basic operation ("update the server"). I run a small IT Dept so I like to think of myself as bright enough to at least do that and it's disconcerting when you find yourself questioning if your basic abilities are lacking and you need to ask for help upon help, or if the documentation is really that convoluted.
Part of my hesitation is likely that this is a small office (under 100 staff), not a large cloud-services provider with a big team or a rack of redundant servers or anything of that scale (just a couple guys and a server room), and the fear of installing an update only to have the host not boot afterwards and be bricked, is maybe more overwhelming than it would be if I had a bigger operation.
Now of course the Hardware Compatibility check is being ambiguous about what BIOS will work with this update, but I think that's a matter of HPE and VMWare labeling versions slightly differently, so I'll post it to different thread here or to HP's forums (though they're probably sick of me too).
I'm incredibly grateful for the help from all you with way more experience with and knowledge of these systems than I.
Thanks,
Jeff
