Update Manager Initiated Reboot Doesn't Trigger Hardware Server Reset

This might not be a new one to a lot of folk, but it certainly was to me! This week I was proactively updating some NIC driver and firmware for a customer to avoid a known issue where the FCoE driver could cause an ESXi Purple Screen of Death (PSOD). Both firmware and drivers needed to be upgraded to maintain interoperability. While I am very much looking forward to vSphere Lifecycle Manager (finally!) to manage this in a single workflow, for this task I did what I normally would do: ...

April 1, 2020 · 2 min · Matt Allford