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HP Onboard Administrator 3.30 firmware released

May 4, 2011

HP has now released their Onboard Administrator (OA) 3.30 firmware after last week's ( "HP Flex-10 firmware 3.18 has been released") release which had recommended the 3.30 OA although it hadn't been released yet. ( Looks like it is a bug fix release as there are no enhancement or new features. I've updated my (../2010/08/09/flex-10-esx-pre-requisites) post for the OA 3.30 release although I'm n...

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Configuring Cisco Ports with HP Flex-10 to avoid loops

Apr 28, 2011

When deploying HP Flex-10 switches in your racks, one of the things that is often overlooked is ensuring you have the correct upstream switch port configuration. Your Flex-10 switches make up only one half of your network topology and need to be connected to upstream switches to complete the networking design. I'm going to use the example of Cisco upstream switches. I've blogged previously on m...

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HP Flex-10 firmware 3.18 has been released

Apr 28, 2011

HP has released new Flex-10 firmware 3.18 and marked it as a \* RECOMMENDED \* update. []( Problems Fixed: • Resolved an issue where a Virtual Connect Domain with large number of networks may experience an unstable network condition when a VC Ethernet module is restarted in one of the following circumstances: \* A power-cycle (Off/On) from the Onboard Administrator \* A reset/reboot from the O...

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ESX 4.1 bnx2x 1.62.15.v41.2 driver IS now supported with HP Flex-10

Apr 13, 2011

I've had confirmation from HP that the ESX 4.1 bnx2x _1.62.15.v41.2_ driver is now officially supported with Flex-10. Although the supported driver is listed as _1.62.15.v41_, the ._2_ at the end of the driver available for download was to facilitate a small change but has been fully tested and certified_._ ( My ( "New Broadcom bnx2x drivers released for ESX but beware, not all are supported wi...

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London VMware User Group reaches for the Cloud on 12 May 2011

Apr 12, 2011

Registrations are now open for the London VMware User Group meeting on 12 May starting at the earlier time of 10am (no, we're not late sleepers in London, some people need to travel quite a distance to be able to attend!) There's also a new registration system open at ( Things are stepping up a gear for this VMUG with the theme being “Your Journey to the Cloud” featuring multiple tracks, multip...

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Citrix XenServer 5.6 Feature Pack 1 is not supported with XenDesktop 4 & 5

Apr 6, 2011

( is the latest release of XenServer but it is not supported as a hypervisor with either XenDesktop 4 or XenDesktop 5. Have a look at the Citrix eDocs for Host Requirements / Hosting Infrastructure. XenServer 5.6 Feature Pack 1 has been out since 15 December 2010 and the ( specifically mention enhancements to Provisioning Services and XenDesktop (only coming in a future release) > Provisioning...

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New Broadcom bnx2x drivers released for ESX but beware, not all are supported with HP Flex-10

Apr 1, 2011

VMware has released some new Broadcom bnx2x Nic Drivers which are used in HP blades for the HP NC532 Nics. As with most bnx2x network card driver updates and HP Flex-10 there's good news, bad news and unfortunately also the usual confusing news. Let's clear up the confusing news first. There have been two new drivers released: VMWare's Compatibility Guides show which drivers are supported with...

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HP Flex-10 Firmware 3.17 released

Mar 25, 2011

HP has released its latest Flex-10 Firmware version 3.17 which has been deemed \* RECOMMENDED \*. It doesn't seem to appear under a search for ( and ESX 4.0 yet which is odd but HPs support site isn't known to be the easiest place to find things! The 3.17 firmware has been posted here: ( Looks like the ( "Update: HP Flex-10 DNS issue causing network outages") issue and ( "HP Flex-10 firmware bu...

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HP Flex-10 firmware bug and PXE kills Virtual Connect.

Mar 22, 2011

HP has discovered a bug in their latest Flex-10 firmware version 3.15. The bug occurs when you have blank blades going through continuous PXE boot cycles. Each time a blade PXE boots Virtual Connect sees the status of the port change and it triggers a process in Virtual Connect that queries the status of all its NICs, which runs but it does not release the memory used. When Virtual Connect runs...

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Investigating the health of a vCenter database server

Mar 9, 2011

VMware has released a new ( all about investigting the health of a vCenter database. I've blogged before on the major issue with vCenter being a massive ( "Why vCenter is letting VMware’s side down") and also on some steps to work out ( "Determining where growth is occurring in the vCenter Server database") in the database which is now included in this article. This new KB article does provide...

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