• Windows 2003 Standard Edition (X86/X64) • Windows 2003 Enterprise Edition (X86/X64) • Windows 2003 Web Server Edition (X86/X64) • Windows 2008 Standard Edition (X86/X64) • Windows 2008 Enterprise Edition (X86/X64) • Windows 2008 Embedded System (X86/X64) • Windows 2008 Web Server Edition (X86/X64) • Windows 2008 Small Business edition (X86/X64) • Windows 2008 Windows Essential Business Server (X86/X64) • RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 x86/64, AMD64/EM64T • RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 x86/64, AMD64/EM64T • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 X86/AMD/EM64T • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 X86/AMD/EM64T.

Get a Intel X520-T2 PCI-E Dual Port 10GbE Copper Ethernet NIC Server Adapter from Aventis Systems for better network connectivity on your device! Running VMware vSphere 6 on an HP Proliant ML110 G6. Hp Compaq Themes Free Download here. The CPU, Memory, Storage Controller and Network Adapter are all detected out of the box. Canon L290 Driver Windows 7 X64. I used the HP image of vSphere ESXi 6.0 that I downloaded from here. Running VMware vSphere 6.0 on HP Proliant MicroServer G7 (N54L).

UPDATE 4th May 2014: HP have released an updated version of the Service Pack for ProLiant (SPP) Version 2014.02.0(B) (2nd May) that resolves the issue originally covered in this post. You can find the which also includes an unrelated fix to address the recent OpenSSL HeartBleed security vulnerability.

Thanks to Rotem Agmon for providing the heads-up on this new HP update, also check out Rotem’s blog which can be. I like to ensure my home lab servers firmware revisions are up to date from time to time and noticed this recent ( c04258304: dated 18th April 2014) warning about a possible issue when performing a latest firmware update to some models of HP Proliant servers, which are running particular Broadcom based network cards. The HP advisory can be found.

The potential issue is described by HP as being: On certain HP ProLiant servers, certain HP Broadcom-Based Network adapters listed in the Scope may become non-functional when they are updated with the Comprehensive Configuration Management (CCM) firmware Version 7.8.21 using firmware smart component, HP Smart Update Manager (HP SUM) or the HP Service Pack for ProLiant (HP SPP) 2014.2.0. Having your NICs become “non-functional” even in a lab environment is far from ideal (although in reality these things happen from time to time to most hardware vendors) so if you run an HP Proliant server in your lab I recommend you read on.