(Note: ar is natively available on any Linux platform. Use the ar command line utility to extract the descriptor.xml file from the VIB files like this:Īr xv hpacucli-9.40-12.0.vib descriptor.xml Download the hp-smx-provider and the hpacucli VIB files from HP (Please note: the links point to the latest versions of the packages as of now, but the instructions will also work with any newer versions).Ģ. Obviously there is a check for HP hardware included in these VIB files, and unfortunately there is no way to override this check.īut we can modify the packages to remove this check, and here is how to do this:ġ. HP Offline bundle installation failure on non-HP hardware Well, you can just install the server using the regular VMware installation ISO, and try to add the HP Offline bundles after the installation. But how can you install the HP packages for monitoring and the hpacucli tool if you are not able to install the box with the HP Customized ISO? after having purchased them on eBay or having yanked them out of some old ProLiant server themselves), and this is indeed a smart and cost-effective way to get an officially supported hardware RAID controller for your ESXi box.
There are quite a few people in the VMware community who install HP SmartArray controllers into their whitebox machines (e.g. HP Customized ISO installation failure on non-HP hardware If you try to install a non-HP/whitebox hardware with an HP Customized ISO you will run into this error:
However, you can only install HP branded ProLiant servers with these ISOs.
HP offers customized installation ISOs for ESXi 5.x that include drivers for HP specific hardware, their Offline Bundles for hardware monitoring and useful tools like hpacucli for managing SmartArray adapters.
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