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HP G7/Gen8 Blades: New Emulex firmware 4.2.401.2215 released

Jul 25, 2013

HP has released a new firmware version _4.2.401.2215_ of its Emulex OneConnect 10Gb Ethernet Controller which is used in HP G7 and Gen8 Blades. The built in LOM adapter names on a G7 Blade server are NC553i or NC551i and the Mezz card is NC554m. The CNA LOM added to a Gen8 Blade server is HP554FLB. This firmware is required if you are going to be using the new ( "HP Virtual Connect 4.01 Update:...

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HP Virtual Connect Firmware upgrade may cause Server Profiles to be unassigned causing a network outage

Jul 25, 2013

HP has released a serious advisory that upgrading certain Virtual Connect firmware may cause server profiles to be unassigned which will cause a a network outage for your blades. The issue occurs when you have both single dense and double dense servers in your chassis and you are upgrading from Virtual Connect firmwares 3.10-3.60 up to Virtual Connect firmwares 3.70-3.75. The upgrade process wi...

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HP Virtual Connect 4.01 Update: Dual-hop FcOE support

Jul 24, 2013

HP has released a significant firmware update to its Virtual Connect line of HP Blade chassis switches. This is part 2 of a 6 part post on HP Virtual Connect 4.01: 1. ( 2. ( 3. ( 4. ( 5. ( 6. ( Dual-hop FcOE support Dual hop FCoE support is a major enhancement particularly for people looking to further converge their infrastructure from the chassis to ToR switches such as the Cisco Nexus 5000 s...

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HP Virtual Connect 4.01 Update: Min/Max Bandwidth Optimisation

Jul 24, 2013

HP has released a significant firmware update to its Virtual Connect line of HP Blade chassis switches. This is part 3 of a 6 part post on HP Virtual Connect 4.01: 1. ( 2. ( 3. ( 4. ( 5. ( 6. ( Min/Max Bandwidth Optimization The next major enhancement in Virtual Connect 4.01 is a far more flexible bandwidth rate limit control. HP is finally catching up with Cisco UCS to offer this. Virtual Conn...

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HP Virtual Connect 4.01 Update: Priority Queue QoS

Jul 24, 2013

HP has released a significant firmware update to its Virtual Connect line of HP Blade chassis switches. This is part 4 of a 6 part post on HP Virtual Connect 4.01: 1. ( 2. ( 3. ( 4. ( 5. ( 6. ( QoS is the next major enhancement in VC 4.01. Pre VC 4.01 there is very little QoS for any traffic. Traffic flows on a first in first out basis, if there's any congestion, the traffic at the tail of the...

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HP Virtual Connect 4.01 Update: RBAC and Multicast + some more

Jul 24, 2013

HP has released a significant firmware update to its Virtual Connect line of HP Blade chassis switches. This is part 6 of a 6 part post on HP Virtual Connect 4.01: 1. ( 2. ( 3. ( 4. ( 5. ( 6. ( Custom role-based configuration VC 4.01 now also adds more options for role customisation. You can split your administration into Storage Admin, Server Admin, Network Admin and Domain User. You can now c...

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HP Virtual Connect 4.01 Update: SNMP and sFlow enhancements

Jul 24, 2013

HP has released a significant firmware update to its Virtual Connect line of HP Blade chassis switches. This is part 5 of a 6 part post on HP Virtual Connect 4.01: 1. ( 2. ( 3. ( 4. ( 5. ( 6. ( SNMP MIB enhancements HP has added a number of enhancement to SNMP for VC 4.01. A number of old traps have been depreciated and new traps added to provide more granular error reporting. A trap is sent fo...

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HP Virtual Connect 4.01 Update: What's New

Jul 19, 2013

HP has released a significant firmware update to its Virtual Connect line of HP Blade chassis switches. The main highlights are Dual-hop FCoE support and enhancements to QoS and bandwidth optimisation. This is part 1 of a 6 part post on HP Virtual Connect 4.01: 1. ( 2. ( 3. ( 4. ( 5. ( 6. ( The full list of new features is: | Dual-hop FCoE Support | Extending convergence for Flex-10 and FlexFab...

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HP Blade Emulex NC55X Nic firmware may cause network disconnections

May 29, 2013

HP has released an advisory saying that with versions of the Emulex Nic driver firmware pre _4.1.450.7_ Device Control Channel (DCC) may not work which could cause your blades with NC55x Nics to drop off the network if the upstream network connection fails. This has been an issue which has plagued HP blade networking since the beginning and was a particular problem with the G6 Broadcom Nics so...

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HP WBEM providers for ESXi 5.x may report incorrect version numbers

May 29, 2013

HP has released a customer advisory saying the HP Insight Management WBEM Providers reports the incorrect "VersionString," "MinorVersion," and "RevisionNumber" properties in the SMX\_SoftwareIdentity class output in HP SIM. Although this is a minor issue, it may trip you up if you use HP SIM for software version reporting so this is a heads up. This issue is corrected in HP WBEM Providers for V...

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