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P71 BIOS Update on HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8

For example, let’s take an HP ProLiant DL360p Gen8 server with BIOS version P71 07/01/2015.

HP ProLiant Gen8 Update to Support CPU E5-2600v2 E5-2400v2 E5-4600v2

Once I installed e5-2690 v2 processors in a ProLiant DL380p Gen8 server and it did not start, the CPU indicators on the front panel were orange, there were no messages in the logs in iLO, but the status displayed System Health – Critical (BIOS/Hardware Health – Failed) , updating BIOS to the latest version didn’t help.

Configuring and tuning HPE ProLiant Servers for low-latency applications

Document Name: Configuring and tuning HPE ProLiant Servers for low-latency applications
Edition: 10 (October 2017)
File size: 0.5 MB
Language: English

Configuring HP 5800

I will give an example of setting up the HP 5800 switch.

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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