HP SPP 2017.10.1

HP has announced that the latest SPP 2017.10.1 for ProLiant will be available for downloading later this week. SPP (Service Pack for ProLiant) is a comprehensive HP systems software and firmware update solution.
2017.10.1 SPP contains components supporting the ProLiant, Synergy and Apollo Gen9 and Gen10 server platforms and options. It also adds support for RHEL 7.4 and SLES 12 SP3.

For more info please check:
http://h17007.www1.hpe.com/us/en/enterprise/servers/products/service_pack/spp/
 

Internal Storage Enclosure Device Failure on HP DL380 Gen8

In this case, I was experiencing error notification from HP DL380 gen8 server ILO. The error message logged into Integrated Management Log was classified as Critical with following description:

Drive Array Controller Failure (Slot 0)

Also, there was a triggered ILO SMTP alert message with following subject :

(CRITICAL) Internal Storage Enclosure Device Failure

From the following alert there must be something bad happening to the specified HP DL 380 Gen8 server, but he operating system running on that server was running without any problems. Also, there were no errors generated on HP ACU (Array Configuration Utility) on specified server. So, my conclusion was that ILO on that server has generated "false positive" alert. I've decided to reset the ILO. I guess, the easiest way to reset the ILO is using the ILO web interface:

Information->Diagnostics->Reset iLO

After resetting the iLO, the alert was resolved, and there were no open issues with that HP DL 380 gen8 server.

There is published HP customer advisory regarding this issue, suggesting to upgrade iLO and Smart Array Controller Firmware on following link:
http://h20566.www2.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=emr_na-c03384383&lang=en-uk
 

Error events in system event log after P2V conversion

In this case I was converting (P2V) HP ProLiant DL 360 G4 server with Windows Server 2003 operating system installed. The conversion has completed successfully, and the VM was running as should, but the following error events were logged in system event log on every reboot:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7000
Description:
The cpqasm2 service failed to start due to the following error:
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7001
Description:
The HP ProLiant System Management Interface Driver service depends on the cpqasm2 service which failed to start because of the following error:
The service cannot be started, either because it is disabled or because it has no enabled devices associated with it.

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7001
Description:
The HP ProLiant System Shutdown Service service depends on the HP ProLiant System Management Interface Driver service which failed to start because of the following error:
The dependency service or group failed to start.

All HP Software related to the old hardware was successfully uninstalled, but these three services were still trying to start. Here is the output of sc (service control) query for those services:

 



In order to prevent these services from starting in VM, I have deleted those services using sc delete, since they were absolutely not needed by the operating system, because the system now was running as virtual machine. Here is the screenshot of the output of sc command:

 

Happy P2V conversion ! :)

 

HP Intelligent Provisioning 1.6

HP has finally published download link for Intelligent Provisioning (IP)1.6. Among other new features and fixes, IP 1.6 has support for installing Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 on HP Gen8 Servers. More info and download link for IP 1.6 on http://h17007.www1.hp.com/us/en/enterprise/servers/management/ilo/#tab=TAB5 .