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VMware vSphere Upgrade to 7.0.x Incompatible

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 19:31:00 +0000

When you are trying to upgrade your HPE Servers from 6.7 to 7.0 because the End of life of 6.5 and 6.7 from VMware see here: Reminder: vSphere 6.5/6.7 End of General Support | VMware

And you are facing Incompatible messages like this:

The upgrade has VIBs that are missing dependencies: HPE_bootbank_hpessacli_4.21.7.0-6.7.0.7535516.hpe Remove the VIBs or use Image Builder to create a custom upgrade ISO image that contains the missing dependencies, and try to upgrade again.

HPE SSD BUG RPM Installation

Thu, 27 Feb 2020 20:40:38 +0000

I have a customer who is as a lot of them affected by the HPE SAS Solid State Drives Firmware bug, where the Disks will die after 32,768 power-on-hours. More you will find here about the bug. Within this short post I want to show you how to install under SLES 11.

At first you need to find which Disk you have, on the mentioned Website there are two different models (HPE SAS SSD models launched in Late 2015 and HPE SAS SSD models launched in Mid 2017), in this case we had a in Late 2015 DISKs.