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Configuring Link Aggregation on HP 5800

I will give an example of aggregation of two links into one on the HP 5800, in order to increase throughput. 1 Gbit/s + 1Gbit/s = 2Gbit/s. In the test on VLAN 400 without a tag, the Internet comes, and on a VLAN with tags other services.

Configure super VLAN on HP 5800

Connect to the switch via telnet and enter the first command to switch to configuration mode:

Configuring Authorized IP on HP 5800

Authorized IP on the HP 5800 switch is used to allow telnet and http to connect to the switch only from specified IP addresses.

Smart Array P420i Firmware Update

For the test, I will update the Smart Array P420i firmware on the HPE DL380p G8 server.

Smart Array P410 firmware update

For the test, I will update the Smart Array P410 firmware on the HP ProLiant DL180 G6 server.

Solution of the iLO error “HTTP SSL_ERROR_BAD_MAC_ALERT”

I noticed the following error when opening the iLO web interface in the browser:

Error establishing secure connection
An error occurred while connecting to 172.16.1.2. The SSL node reported an incorrect message authentication code. Error code: SSL_ERROR_BAD_MAC_ALERT
The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

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Updating iLO 3 firmware on HP servers

Once I set up iLO on servers and noticed that when opening an interface in the browser, an SSL error occurs and the iLO web interface does not open.

See how to temporarily solve this error in my article – Solution of the iLO error “HTTP SSL_ERROR_BAD_MAC_ALERT”.

For example, I will use HP ProLiant DL380 G7 with old firmware iLO 3 1.10 (Jul 26 2010)
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Update BIOS P80 on HP ProLiant DL320e Gen8 v2

I will give an example of updating the BIOS P80 on the HP ProLiant DL320e Gen8 v2 server.

Update is necessary through iLO4.
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Updating iLO 4 firmware on HP servers

On the test, I will update iLO4 with firmware 1.13 (Nov 08 2012) on the HP ProLiant DL380p G8 server to the latest version 2.50 (Sep 23 2016) at the time of this writing.

And so, download the firmware from the official site http://www.hpe.com/support/iLO4, choosing, for example, the Windows Server operating system, as some do not display the firmware tab “Firmware”.
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Update BIOS P70 on HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8

On the test, I will perform the BIOS update P70 on the HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 server.
I will perform the update through iLO4.
At the time of this writing, the server was BIOS version 03/01/2013, and from the official site I downloaded 05/21/2018.
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