On 01/07/2019 18:38, mark wrote:
lejeczek via CentOS wrote:
hi guys
does anybody here runs on HPE ProLiant? I was hoping you can tell whether HPE support Linux Vendor Firmware Service and you actually get to upgrade ProLiants' BIOS/firmware via fwupdmgr?
Dunno 'bout "Linux Vendor Firmware Service", but HPE support, ah, yeah... let's not go there. And they *really* want you to use MS DOS to update the firmware. Oh, and when we had support in to do repairs about 6 or so months ago on our small SGI supercomputer (they bought SGI), the techs were worried, because HPE was spinning off support to Unisys, and how they were going to get parts....
mark "at least it's not Oracle/Sun support is all I can say"
hi, thanks for the info. And you have tried fwupdmgr and no positive results? Which Gen your ProLiants are? On https://fwupd.org/ HPE logo shows up plus some notes but first-hand experience is as always best to have, which I do not have as I only begin to consider HPE hardware for the first time.
Dell, which I have had for many years, do their own OMSA which is better than nothing but this too is flaky at times. I also a few years ago got Dell's tech support telling me to do MS-DOS stuff in order to update BIOS.
I'm thinking & hoping that maybe IBM, since they are now Redhat, will supply us with premium grade software support for their hardware. Although IBM is a bit like Intel in my opinion - they do not innovate that much, are old and struggle to understand the end users like us.