Firmware repositories

Adding firmware bundles to the firmware repository enables you to deploy them across your environment. Selecting a firmware bundle from the repository displays its release date, supported languages, operating systems, and the file components. The Settings > Repository panel displays the amount of storage space available for additional firmware bundles on the appliance. To add a firmware bundle to a repository, ensure that you have enough space.

Two types of repositories are supported:

  • Internal Repository — An internal embedded firmware repository has a maximum size limit of 100 GB to store and upload firmware files for use by components managed by HPE OneView.

    NOTE:

    You cannot add or modify the space allocated or remove the internal repository.

  • External Repository — One additional externally managed and user-maintained web server can be added to the appliance as a repository. You can upload the firmware bundle in a specific directory and register the server with HPE OneView.

    After you have added the web server to HPE OneView as an external repository, you can upload the firmware bundle to the web server and the file will get discovered automatically.

    • You cannot edit the web server address after the external repository is added to HPE OneView.

    • You will be prompted to acknowledge the certificate while setting up the external repository. After you accept the certificate, it will be added to the certificate repository.

    • The external repository does not support password with characters such as { } @ # ~ /.

    • HPE OneView supports only anonymous and basic authentication.

    The recommended types of external web servers to use with the repository follow:

    • Apache

    • Internet Information Services (IIS)

    You can add web servers configured with the IPv4 and IPv6 address to HPE OneView.

    For IPv6 address, you can configure using either static or DHCP address types.

    Example:

    • IPv4 address: 192.168.12.0

    • IPv6 address: [2001:db8::]

    NOTE:

    • You can add only one external repository to the appliance.

    • HPE OneView and the external firmware repository can be part of different subnets, provided HPE OneView and the iLOs on the managed servers can communicate with the IP address of the external repository using the HTTP/HTTPs protocol.

    • Do not change the name of the Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) in the external repository during a firmware update. The SPP name change causes the update to fail.

    • HPE OneView automatically discovers the firmware bundle or hotfixes added in the external repository. HPE OneView polls the external repository once in every five minutes. To view the changes earlier, refresh the external repository manually from the Actions menu after adding the files to the external repository web server.

    • Add the signature files for the Gen10 hotfixes that are present in the external repository. If the signature files are not added, a warning message appears on the HPE OneView Firmware bundles screen.

      The best practice is to add both the hotfix and the signature file as a pair to the external repository web server.

Hotfix

For hotfix files, the following formats are supported:

  • .exe for Windows.

  • .scexe and .rpm for Linux.

  • .fwpkg or .zip for VMware ESXi.

NOTE:

  • To make a .fwpkg hotfix discoverable on the external repository, add the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) type for .fwpkg format.

  • Do not modify the hotfix file name after you download the file from the Hewlett Packard Enterprise website.

Upload of firmware bundles that do not contain the management firmware components

If you attempt to add a firmware bundle that does not contain the required firmware version and components, the firmware bundle is uploaded with a warning message in the appliance firmware repository. The warning message displays the missing components in the firmware bundle. All the shared infrastructure components and iLO are considered as management firmware components.

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