How to Update HPE Enterprise Server Using a SPP on a USB - 1159

Mistakes in the book: "if you're not seeing anything on the screen, try to connect power to the screen, if the server does not have power try to connect power"

thank you very much !! with your video i was able to update ilo fot the first time in 4 years (was not able to find any info on HP website as always)

This video was a huge help! Thanks for the help!

i love u bro, thanks for the video

I have a problem with hp server
DL 380 G7
It is no boot
If any body have an idia ?

Have nice day

Hello,
I don't have the F10 provisioning function, it's not even in the bios, I don't know how to mount the disks in Raid in this function, can you help me

Hi, where did you get the SSP files from? Cannot find them anywhere online.

great video. well done .+++++++

Hello hoping you can help me out here I have a HP Proliant DL360 G6 I bought new replacement SAS HDDS but my server won’t read them when I log into the ILO it says that the drive firmware needs to be updated but I don’t know what to look for :/

Thank you

Awesome video! I am doing SPP update via USB on a server that is on the other side of the planet. This video helped me to get a good grasp of the task ahead. Thank you and keep up the great work!

Hi, I created a hp account and download the spp without problems, greats from Germany and thx for the information about spp 😊 i used the iso image in Windows Server 2016 over html without problems 😃

nice video sir,
If I update the raid controllers firmware on a working raid setup of my server, is there a possibility or problem? or my raid setup will reset on default?

I am updating Proliant Microserver Gen10 using USB and stuck at localhost: Node Inventory Failed, cannot perform the operation now. Connection failed to Node, Verify no firewalls are blocking....

Wow, this just saved me. Thank you!

Thanks very much as recently got a cheap ML350 G9 to start a homelab with and this video helped immensely with updating the firmwares (was still running on original 2014 version) - now I have the degraded iLo/NAND error to look into but hopefully shouldn't be too much of an issue if can't be fixed.

Hi, great video! Do you have a link to download that service pack ? Kind regards

My server IntelligentProvisioning and ILO ports are not working. Can we collect AHS logs by using SPP pendrive.

Shhh we are filming here !
Quiet on the set !
😂😂😂

Hi , from the last week i am trying to setup this server for my home lab and i am getting a lot of problems, Intelligent provisionin- F10 option doesnt comes up in the start, i downloaded 2.x from HPE , Getting error "ERROR FLASHING THE NVRAM" , i upgraded ILO but still no luck , now i am thinking to upgrade SPP , but the problem is now i have 32 GB USB , that USBKEY software is not allowing to make it bootable, i am new to the server basically from network..can you please tell me exact ISO file to download when u open the link for lenovo to download the SPP from there. i dont see ISO file there .Thanks

Hi, i hope everyone is fine. Is there any way to run Non-HP drives on HP Server ( DL series ) ? To avoid Fan´s ate 80% all the time :( Continue the great work.... I guess you already in Portugal? Regards, from Portugal.

I just love servers, they are so mean sometimes

I hate the support site of HPE, it's slow like hell and often gives me Error: 503 Service Unavailable when logging in. it's really a piece of s*it!

There is one more method you can just mount or extract iso in os and run .Bat file it will open same page in a browser which is much more helpful if you want to install apps need for Windows , i think there is .Sh for Linux also available

Hi Morten,
I see that you've been spending/working for some time to boot and get the SPP working finally. Anyway, I see that it still have shown some "weird" stuff like the "not secure" screen, which also I haven't seen that kind of issue, but as suggestion for the future, in case of have problems with booting SPP ISO via iLO, just upgrade first the iLO firmware separate way, then use the iLO to boot the SPP ISO and proceed with the rest of firmware updates manual or automatic, I know the iLO may be sloooow to boot ISO's and get GUI available to start the upgrades but at least you save time, instead of going around with USB keys into the servers, by the way, I've recently involved in firmware upgrade a complete HP C7000 chassis full of blades with G10, G9 and even G8's and I simply got to iLO of each blade and do the firmware upgrade via their iLO interface, much easier and time saving. Just to add, I'm not an HP fanboy, but I like their equipment, is more cheaper for me to buy used for my homelab :)
Best regards

That's quite stupid from HPE, as the firmware only is of any use on HPE servers, so by denying it's downloading, they are only going to piss off their own buyers, that could very well just decide to buy another brand the next time they have to choose servers.

Dell is sooo much easier to update firmware. You can get the bootable ISO or individual components in both exe and bin formats for whichever OS you are running. I only got a pair of Gen10 servers in 2018 for VDI to house nvidia tesla cards. Can't register the system with support because it requires a certificate and when trying to use our company wildcard certificate, it said one if the fields was too long and can't use it. I gave up.

That's much better. Glad you got it to work:) Don

Great video as always Morten, the reason the server started being really loud half way through the update (shush, we are filming here lol), was the iLo 4 update, the iLo 4 controls all the fans and temps, when it got upgraded it rebooted and normally when you restart an iLo adapter it ramps all the fans to 100% as it doesn't know what's going on and this is also the reason the iLo 4 just said "Success" after upgrade as it had already been rebooted. Glad it all worked out in the end 😎😎🙌🙌👍👍

I remember doing stuff this like on a prod server and there's a moment when things don't look like they are working and you're hands start to sweat - Stuff like this can be stressful (!!) when its a prod server !

Now we know right way for HP updating.. 👍

about the security massage in instaltion .

It becasue motherboard cmos data not update.( default fail safe data/ in must case the date build of motherboard firmware.

Hi Morten, thank you for your video! According to the Dell firmwares and drivers - they are available for download without an account or subscription. The same as Lenovo ones. There is a Dell Platform Specific Bootable ISO which is an alternative to the IBM/Lenovo BoMC (Bootable media creator) with the difference that you are not choosing yourself which server models to include in the ISO - it is an ISO per server base model (620, 720, 730 and etc). As this said the BoMC is much more flexible and customizable. Thanks and I am waiting for your next video!

Oke good too see that all went well. Seems that your SPP still works which is good!

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Upgrades are *.rpm ... it's based on linux ! ;)
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Had a nightmare trying to update my old ml350 so I'll give this a blast when I get home.

Where did you get the SPP as i have a couple Gen 9 Dl20s and i cant get any of the SPPs for those servers to do updates. Thanks

Amazing content as always, thank you for that. :)

Thanks for your second try 😃

Good job 👏🏻, have awesome day ^_^

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