I just spent 6 hours figuring out how to update buggy, data-eating SAS disk firmware on an HP ProLiant server. This is ridiculous. Get your shit together, @HPE.
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No, but I did try updating the NIC firmware while I was in the updater DVD. *That* failed too, halfway through. Turns out you have to rmmod and re-modprobe and re-up the interfaces between boot code and PXE/iSCSI firmware updates, since it jams after the former. I don't even.
Oh yeah and I had to do all this shit remotely, with 300ms ping time, over their iLO 2 console which loads from virtual media at something like 0.4MB/s (even though said media was hosted on another server directly connected to the iLO).
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If it is any consolation, it's 5pm somewhere in the world
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Yeah, in American Samoa...
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Amazingly, they actually released an iLO 2 update last month fixing TLS and SSH cipher support to work with Chrome and modern versions of OpenSSH.
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