Thanks for the update on the HP Firmware MAintenance DVD, that is awesome news and should take much of the hassle out of keeping our ML110 and ML115′s up to date.

I will definitely check this out.

Thanks again for taking the time to let us know, I know this will be of much use for other ML110/ML115 TechHead owners out there.

Cheers,

Si

I’d never got round to upgrading the firmware on my E200 past v1.72 because of the problems listed above, but it now appears that the ML115 and other 1xx series servers are supported by the HP Firmware Maintenance DVD v9.00 and greater. Don’t let the contradictory statements on the HP web site put you off! I’ve successfully used it to upgrade the onboard NIC firmware and the E200 firmware on my ML115 i.e.

1. Do a “support and drivers” search on the HP Web for drivers for the E200.
2. Download the v9.00 DVD
(Note: Release notes for v9.00 Firmware DVD says “100 Series servers are NOT supported with FWDVD 9.0″)
3. Do a search for the “Online ROM Flash Component for Windows – Smart Array E200 and E200i”
(Note: Release notes state “The HP ProLiant 100-series servers are only supported on the Firmware Maintenance DVD 9.0 or greater.”)
4. Copy Firmware DVD to a USB key using HP USB Key Creator Utility.
5. Place the E200 firmware to be updated in the directory, \HPFWUP900\hp\swpackages on the USB key.
6. Boot from DVD and be sure to select the option to allow non bundled firmware to be applied.

I still haven’t quite figured out why the release notes for the Windows E200 online ROM flash contains instructions for using it to update the Firmware DVD. In the end I downloaded both the Windows online ROM flash and the Linux version (CP012811.scexe) and copied both to the \HPFWUP900\hp\swpackages directory.

Good tip – thanks for letting us know about that rather nifty way of updating the firmware files on the USB pen drive. I’ll be sure to give that a go.

I have been running ESXi via USB on my ML115 for a long time without any issues. What problems are you having with it?

Thanks,

Simon

Boot from the USB stick into Linux on the ML115, download the Linux updater FW files from HP using Mozilla to the Linux partition and the DOS rompaq files to the DOS partition. Run the Linux scexe’s then reboot into DOS and run the rompaq.exe’s

Job done!

P.S. If you install the Open Source VMFS (read only) driver for linux then you can also offline browse your ESXi datastores!