{"id":1611,"date":"2013-08-20T05:20:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T05:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.atumvirt.com\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2013-08-20T05:20:43","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T05:20:43","slug":"hp-intelligent-provisioning-for-proliant-servers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/2013\/08\/hp-intelligent-provisioning-for-proliant-servers\/","title":{"rendered":"HP Intelligent Provisioning for ProLiant Servers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1621\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atumvirt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/HPSmartProvisioningFirmwareUpdate.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1621\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1621\" alt=\"Updates system firmware without the need to insert USB\/CD\/DVD or network boot\" src=\"http:\/\/www.atumvirt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/HPSmartProvisioningFirmwareUpdate-300x211.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"211\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/HPSmartProvisioningFirmwareUpdate-300x211.png 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/HPSmartProvisioningFirmwareUpdate-1024x721.png 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/HPSmartProvisioningFirmwareUpdate-768x541.png 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/HPSmartProvisioningFirmwareUpdate.png 1112w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Updates system firmware without the need to insert USB\/CD\/DVD or network boot<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been an HP Shop for years and I very frequently sing their praises. \u00a0HP servers are equipped (possibly over equipped) with sensors and redundant components. \u00a0That&#8217;s valuable for our organization not because of a 24\/7 uptime requirement, but rather a limited administrative staff and budget. \u00a0We don&#8217;t have n+1 for every server, so having the extra security of better-than-white-box servers is comforting. \u00a0We also don&#8217;t get to frequently replace our hardware. \u00a0In 2004, we had a major technology refresh which allowed us to change from Compaq ProLiant 800s to DL360\/DL380 G3 servers. \u00a0Since then, we had a few purchases each year &#8211; 2-3 G4, ~15 G5, 3 G6, 8 G7 and now finally a fairly substantial refresh and expansion resulting in 14 G8 servers.<\/p>\n<p>I was intrigued at the option for HP Intelligent Provisioning, a new option (F10) during the boot process. \u00a0Upon viewing the ever tedious marketing page over at <a href=\"http:\/\/h18013.www1.hp.com\/products\/servers\/management\/intelligentprovisioning\/\">HP.com<\/a>\u00a0I decided to give it a whirl, rather than install from Windows Deployment Services.<\/p>\n<p>I was immediately impressed. \u00a0 Intelligent Provisioning is essentially &#8220;Smart Start&#8221; + &#8220;Firmware Update&#8221; (Later HP SUM) built onto the board. \u00a0The system will connect to the internet and download the latest firmware, install connect to a network share where your ISO for the OS is installed, download and install then install latest driver packs from HP.com. \u00a0All in all, it&#8217;s pretty smooth!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve been an HP Shop for years and I very frequently sing their praises. \u00a0HP servers are equipped (possibly over equipped) with sensors and redundant components. \u00a0That&#8217;s valuable for our organization not because of a 24\/7 uptime requirement, but rather a limited administrative staff and budget. \u00a0We don&#8217;t have n+1 for every server, so having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[94,112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avtempwp.azurewebsites.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}