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Month: October 2020

Two issues I had with installing ESXi on my Raspberry Pi 4

October 19, 2020 /

When I heard at VMworld 2020 there was a fling for ESXi on ARM I was very excited. I have several Raspberry Pis deployed for various functions around the house so I thought this would be the perfect excuse to buy a shiny new 8GB Raspberry Pi4.

The documentation flings.vmware.com/esxi-arm-edition was great, however, I ran into two issues….

The Raspberry Pi 4 does not play nicely with all HDMI monitors

I couldn’t see any video while the Pi was booting up. I tried two different monitors and that didn’t help. The fix was adding the following line to the config.txt file on the root of the SD card

hdmi_safe=1

Don’t be tempted to use a cheap USB drive for the ESXi install media

The install media is less than 1GB, so I thought I would use one of the many small USB drives that vendors hand out like candy. This led to getting I/O errors and the install failing. I tried another no-name brand USB drive and the same thing happened. I finally tried a Kingston USB drive and the install completed.

Updating HPE iLO Firmware with Ansible

October 10, 2020 /

Welcome to my first real blog post.

This is a simple Ansible playbook to update iLO firmware on HPE servers. The only prerequisite is that you need a webserver to server up the firmware file. As an Ansible rookie, it took me a while to figure out I needed to use raw commands since iLO doesn’t have a traditional shell.

If you are looking for a good place to start with Ansible, check out Jeff Geerling’s YouTube channel

https://www.youtube.com/user/geerlingguy

and here is the playbook….

---
- hosts: hp_hosts
  gather_facts: no
  tasks:
  - name: CHANGE DIR
    raw:  'cd /map1/firmware1'
  - name: UPDATE FIRMWARE
    raw: 'load -source http://webserver/ilo.bin'

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