Do you work with HP Proliant hardware? This guide will make ESXi deployments a breeze. Sections in this Article: • How does this work? • Building the Web Server • Get the latest Service Pack for Proliant • Install the HP iLO PowerShell Cmdlets We are going to run through how to configure bare metal deployment automation with HP Proliant Servers and ESXi with NO PXE booting, NO 3rd party applications, just pure raw PowerShell and some HP configuration tools. I’ve successfully used this process to build many HP Proliant servers and have saved thousands of hours in the process.

Hopefully, I can do the same for you and your company by explaining and demonstrating step-by-step on how to set this up. I’ve only ever done this with HP Proliant hardware, also the PowerShell cmdlets that HP has released for the has made this all possible. Hengstler grado 921 manual. Essentially, once everything is set up, the steps for deploying servers will be as follows: – Plug the HP Proliant Server into network, write down the default ilo name and password from the service tag – Register iLO Advanced key and obtain license key – Verify server is pingable by ilo name – Run PowerShell script, take a break – Come back to a fully updated HP Proliant server with ESXi completely configured to your standards In order to configure this, there are some requirements that are necessary to fulfill all the moving parts involved. But don’t worry, I will run through step by step how to configure and set up each piece. Below are the following items you will need: – A Web Server to store all of the ISOs for the Server Build – Windows ADK for Windows 10 – ESXi vSphere ISO – HP Proliant Server G8 or higher -The latest -HP iLO PowerShell cmdlets How Does This Work? The deployment script will first use the HP iLO cmdlets to initiate communication to the server, it will then use the default credentials to configure the iLo.

Nafsiyat book in urdu. You don't really need to remove the ILO license. Nobody is going to care, and HP isn't interested in auditing the license status of such an old server. But if you can open an SSH connection to the ILO using username: Administrator, just run: delete /map1 license That's all you'll need.

Once the iLO is configured, the server will boot to the HP Service Pack for Proliants and run through the automated firmware update process. Afterward, the server will be booted into a WinPE image and the HP array configuration tool will automatically deploy. I have the RAID configuration set up for the most common scenario which is RAID 5 with 1 Hot Spare and splitting up into a 50GB partition for the ESXi install. The 2nd partition will use up all the rest of the available drive space.