Update Manager Initiated Reboot Doesn't Trigger Hardware Server Reset

Wed, 01 Apr 2020 20:40:43 +0000

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:

Hpe on Matt Allford

Update Manager Initiated Reboot Doesn't Trigger Hardware Server Reset