Usually this works great-- boot from the SPP ISO, walk away for a beverage, come back and everything's updated. Not so on a few of my servers...
The final SPP release for these old DL360 G6 servers was Oct 2016, so that's what I'm using. Here's what I see during the automatic update process:
So far I've tried to update it from the OS (ESXi 5.5) using the downloaded standalone driver from HP (which has ESXi 5.5 listed as a supported OS) but that process fails with issues like:
# cd /tmp/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/hp-firmware-smartarray-14ef73e580-6.64-2
# ./hpsetup
./hpsetup: line 226: tr: not found
./hpsetup: line 226: tr: not found
./hpsetup: line 226: tr: not found
./hpsetup: line 226: tr: not found
./hpsetup: line 226: tr: not found
./hpsetup: line 293: syntax error: bad substitution
Running the raw .scexe has similar issues. Clearly a case of the OS not supporting the patch script.
I found this article which coincidentally has my identical starting firmware version (2.50) so I'm wondering if perhaps there's a bad version out there that breaks future automatic updates (fun!) https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=13184
Based on that, I plan to try and find a live CD that will work for this HP firmware update. Has anyone found one that works well for this process? Alternatively, is there a way to get the SPP update process to work correctly? (I would expect that boot environment to be VERY HP-firmware-update-friendly, yet in this case it seems to not work properly.)
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