Overview
Welcome to the HP vibsdepot. This site at http://vibsdepot.hp.com provides our customers and partners with online access to the HP developed VMware® Bundles for use with VMware® vSphere 5.0 Image Builder, Update Manager (VUM) and ESXCLI. It is assumed you are familiar with these applications and command line utilities and if needed should refer to the VMware® vSphere 5.0 documentation along with VMware.com for further information.
The HP bundles that are provided on the vibsdepot are an important solution for the management and configuration of HP Industry Standard Servers and are already integrated in the HP Customized VMware® ESXi 5.0 image available at https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=HPVM09
*** IMPORTANT INFORMATION *** - The new ProLiant Gen8 servers require the use of the HP Customized image for a successful installation. The drivers for the new network and storage controllers in the Gen8 servers are integrated in the HP Customized image and are not part of the generic ESXi image that is distributed by VMware. ESXi requires drivers for these controllers to be integrated as you are not able to insert them during installation.
For a list of HP supplied drivers and versions used in HP Customized VMware® images reference the list at http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/software/vmware-esxi/driver_version.html
You can also easily install the HP Bundles from vibsdepot on your VMware® ESXi 5.0 image as offline bundle ZIP files with ESXCLI and VUM or integrated as part of your customized ESXi 5.0 image creation with Image Builder.
Use Cases:
- Directly add the vibsdepot with Image Builder PowerCLI command "Add-EsxSoftwareDepot http://vibsdepot.hp.com" for all the bundles or with any specific bundle subdirectory by appending the respective <bundle-directory> to the URL
- Directly connect VUM to "http://vibsdepot.hp.com/index.xml"or for a specific bundle subdirectory via
http://vibsdepot.hp.com/<bundle-directory>/index.xml
- Download (or copy)"http://vibsdepot.hp.com/" for all the bundles or any specific bundle subdirectory to your local VMware® depot
- Download (or copy)"http://vibsdepot.hp.com/" or a specific <bundle-directory>/<offline-bundle-name>.zip to you local management console or to the host and use the ESXCLI command
For the 5.0_Mar_2012 vibsdepot Release Version 1.2
- HP ESXi 5.0 Management Providers bundle includes the latest HP Common Information Model (CIM) Providers, HP Integrated Lights-Out (iLO) driver, HP Compaq ROM Utility (CRU) driver, and the new HP Agentless Management Service (AMS).
- HP ESXi 5.0 Utilities bundle with ESXCLI utilities such as HPBOOTCFG (boot order configuration),HPONCFG (remote iLO configuration) and HPACUCLI (Smart Array reporting and configuration)
- HP ESXi 5.0 NMI bundle with the Non Maskable Interrupt (NMI) driver used to write VMware® errors to the Insight Management Log (IML)
- HP Agentless Management Service Offline Bundle for VMware ESXi 5.0 version 9.0.0 (new!)is a service that provides support for Agentless Management and Active Health. Agentless Management Service provides a wider range of server information (e.g. OS type and version, installed applications, IP addresses) allowing customers to complement hardware management with OS information and alerting. Agentless Management provides Integrated Lights Out (iLO) based robust management without the complexity of OS-based agents. Active Health provides 24x7 mission control for servers, delivering maximum uptime through automated monitoring, diagnostics and alerting.
Typical directory structure elements:
- HP_EULA.htm
- End User License Agreement
- index.xml
- Image Builder default index file that points to vendor-index.xml (available in main and each bundle directory)
- vendor-index.xml
- Lists product ID, version number and points to the hp metadata.zip (available in main and each bundle directory)
- hp-esxi-5.0.0-1.2-metadata.zip
- A collection of vib xml files