Firmware Updates on vSphere Hosts

Recently, HP and Dell have both come out with their latest generation hardware platforms (HP’s Gen8 platform and Dell’s 12th generation platform).  Along with those platforms come updates to embedded management features (HP’s iLO and Dell’s iDRAC 7).

Great stuff.  But sometimes in the real world, we’re faced with hardware that wasn’t manufactured this year.  How does one manage those platforms in a virtualized environment?

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