lejeczek via CentOS wrote:
On 01/07/2019 18:38, mark wrote:
lejeczek via CentOS wrote:
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?
I don't remember if I ever used that. Only had one HP Proliant, and did not like it - a gen 5, I think it was, and, on boot, 70 sec *before* the logo even appeared. That system was my "why I don't care about systemd SEE HOW FAST WE BOOT!!!", when it took almost five MINUTES before it ever got to the grub screen. <snip>
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.
As I just said in another post, I've never had tech support tell me that. They give me a link for a .BIN, which I run, and it's an shell script with embedded binary software.
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.
I dunno 'bout that. IBM hardware has always been really solid, in my experience. And you have to understand, they do a lot of service/consulting.
Understand us? IBM's been seriously big in Linux from very early. Hell, around 18 years ago, one of their folks had the use of a Z-series mainframe, and maxed it out, using IBM's VM (which goes back to the seventies, really), with 48,000 separate instances of Linux, and it ran fine on 32,000 VMs....
Hell, I wasn't happy, a few years ago, when I found out that RH's CEO since a few years ago was a former exec at... Delta Airlines. I'm sure he know soooo much about Unix, Linux, or o/s's in general....
mark