Simplified firmware management

HPE OneView provides fast, reliable, and simple firmware management across the appliance.

When you add a resource for the appliance to manage, the appliance automatically updates the resource firmware to the minimum version required by the appliance. A firmware bundle must be uploaded to the appliance for automation to occur.

An on-appliance firmware repository enables you to upload firmware bundles and deploy them across your environment according to your best practices. For example, you can:

• View the versions and contents of firmware bundles stored in the firmware repository.

• View the version of firmware installed on supported hardware from the Server Hardware page.

• Set a firmware baseline and required state for firmware versions on a managed resource, such as a server profile, or on a group of resources, such as all the interconnects in a logical interconnect.

• Detect when a managed resource does not comply with the firmware baseline.

• Report on firmware compatibility.

• Update firmware for an entire logical enclosure.

• Update firmware for individual resources or for groups of resources, such as logical interconnects.¹

• Update OS drivers and firmware.

• Remove a firmware bundle from the repository.

• Increase the size of the virtual disk for the SPP repository.

An additional externally managed HTTP/HTTPS web server can be added to the appliance as an external repository. It is a user-maintained HTTP/HTTPS web server. You can upload firmware bundles in a specific directory, and then register the HTTP/HTTPS server with HPE OneView. This functionality is supported for WEBDAV-enabled webservers, such as Apache HTTPD and IIS.

Hypervisor clusters are updated nondisruptively for VMware ESXi systems, when the orchestrated activation option is chosen. If the logical enclosure contains one or more hypervisor profiles, each hypervisor is serially placed into a maintenance mode before updating. It can take up to 90 minutes to place a hypervisor into the maintenance mode, perform the firmware update, and take it back out of the maintenance mode.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise occasionally releases component hotfixes between main Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) releases. Hewlett Packard Enterprise notifies you that a hotfix is available to upload and provides details about the SPP to which the hotfix applies. You can either manually apply a hotfix or add a hotfix to an existing SPP and deploy it using HPE OneView.