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Hewlett Packard Enterprise Blade Infrastructure – Managing Firmware and Drivers

HPE Service Pack for Proliant (SPP): “The SPP is a comprehensive package that includes firmware, drivers, and tools across ProLiant Servers and infrastructure including a broad range of many generations of HP ProLiant BL/DL/ML/SL 100, 300, 500, 700, and 900 series servers.” The HPE SPP is your source for a compatible, tested and interoperable set of firmware and drivers for just about any HPE ProLiant server. By using the packages included on the ISO we can ensure that the Onboard Administrator (OA), Virtual Connect (VC), and blade firmware, as well as drivers, are compatible with each other. For Linux environments, the SPP is also published in HP’s Software Delivery Repository. For online updates of drivers, simply add the SPP as a YUM repo (RHEL/CentOS). See how here. Similarly, there is a repository for firmware called the Firmware Pack for ProLiant. Like the SPP, it too can be added as a YUM repo.

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