To install the software: 1. Start the vMA 4.0/4.1 guest operating system. Download the software from the Riello UPS Web site“PowerShield³ v.5.1 (Build: 001) for VMWare ESXi” called upsmon‐5.1.0‐linux‐2.6‐x8664.rpm. Upload the software from Windows to vMA 4.0/4.1 using WinSCP tools. Running Photon OS on vSphere. This guide describes how to get started using Photon OS as a virtual machine within VMware vSphere. It provides instructions for downloading Photon OS (as an OVA or ISO file), describes the various installation options, and walks through the steps of installing the Photon OS distribution on vSphere.
Configuration of HP ILO can be done using reboot of your HP server and Press <F8> to configure the ILO settings but you need a down time to your ESXi host and all the virtual machines running on it if it is a standalone host and no option to vMotion to other host. It is really a tough task to get downtime for your virtuali machines just for your ILO configurations like Reset ILO configuration, Reconfigure ILO IP address and reset ILO administrative password.
Now ILO configuration of ESXi host can easily be done without need of host restart using HP ESXi utilities.
HP ESXi Utilities Offline bundle for VMware ESXi 5 will be available as part of HP customized ESXi installer image but if it is not a HP customized ESXi image then you may need to download and install HP ESXi Utilities Offline bundle for VMware ESXi 5. It downloads the HP ESXi Utilities Offline bundle Zip file.This ZIp file contains 3 different utilities HPONCFG , HPBOOTCFG and HPACUCLI utilities for remote online configuration of servers.
HPONCFG can be used to set up and reconfigure the iLO (Integrated Lights-Out) management controller of a server.
HPBOOTCFG can be used to set up the boot configuration for the server.
HPACUCLI can be used in the configuration of HP Smart Array controllers and attached storage
You can directly download HPONCFG and Upload the VIB file into your ESXi host and execute the below command to install the HPONCFG utility.
esxcli software vib install -f -v /tmp/hponcfg-04-00.10.vib
Once it is installed. Browse towards the directory /opt/hp/tools and execute the below commands to perform the below operations. Below are the available help options for HPONCFG utility
Reset the ILO from ESXi host
Browse to /opt/hp/tools and execute the below command to reset the HP ILO configuration.
./hponcfg -r
Export the ILO configuration of your ESXi host into file
Browse to /opt/hp/tools and execute the below command to export the ILO configuration into text file.
/opt/hp/tools # ./hponcfg -w /tmp/ilo-conf.txt
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Reset the ILO administrator password from ESXi host
Create a file named reset_admin_pw.xml with the below info and add the new password in the password section:
<ribcl VERSION=”2.0″>
<login USER_LOGIN=”Administrator” PASSWORD=”YOUR-NEW-PASSWORD“>
<user_INFO MODE=”write”>
<mod_USER USER_LOGIN=”Administrator”>
<password value=”newpass”/>
</mod_USER>
</user_INFO>
</login>
</ribcl>
Commit the Updated administrator password information from the file (reset_admin_pw.xml) to ILO using the below command
./hponcfg -f reset_admin_pw.xml
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That’s it you should be able to login to ILO of your ESXi host using the password specified in the above xml file. I hope this is informative for you. Thanks for Reading !!!!
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