Configure iLO port via hponcfg without reboot the host

Configuration of HP iLO management system is an useful solution as an Out of Band (OOB) management technology for HP Proliant servers family. The usual way to configure iLO is when the server is trying to boot up (passing of POST phase) you can press F8 button to redirect to iLO basic setting environment and after succeeding to do it, (the credential will not be asked) configuration of NIC (Manual IP or DHCP and DNS) and login credentials are available. However this method, requires reboot and much times you are not allowed to do, because of server production activities. So HP & VMware together introduce such a good way to do: HPONCFG.First of all prompt to this path on ESXi Shell: /opt/hp/tools and run ./hponcfg to see help information:

1. hponcfg -r (for default factory reset)
2. hponcfg -w ilosettings.xml (or .txt extension to export iLO configuration)
3. Now you need Apps like WinSCP to connect to the host and download xml/txt file for editing. Set iLO IP Address, Subnet Mast, Gateway and DNS if you need. (if you don't have access to any proper apps, save your exported file to path like this: /vmfs/volumes/[datastore's name]/[specified folder name]/ilosettings.xml , then you can have access to that location by vSphere client :) otherwise if you are a Linux expert try editors like vi)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

4. hponcfg -f ilosettings.xml (After editing of xml file, you should set and reload configuration change). This step, reset iLO automatically and finally you can try iLO web console without any server workload interrupts.
test it and i hope you enjoy ;)

 

VMware Horizon 7.5 New Features

VMware released VMware Horizon 7 version 7.5 about one month ago on 29 May. Based on release notes for this version of VMware View, we can achieve the below features:

1. Full VM on AWS: Scale-up Horizon 7 Desktop/App on VMware Cloud on Amazon.
2. IC Pool Improvements: Multiple vGPU Profile, 3D vSGA / 3D Software settings and PCoIP/Blast with NVIDIA GRID vGPU have been added for Instant Clone Desktop Pools.
3. Virtualization-Based Security (VBS): Create VMs based on VBS feature (released by vSphere 6.7) to protect strongly against new threats and detected vulnerabilities on VM Guest OS.
4. Trusted Platform Module (TPM): Assign vTPM devices with VBS-Enabled VMs (only for Automatic Desktop Pools) for enhanced security options.
5. JMP (Server Installer + Integrated Workflow): Create and control desktop workspaces (Desktop OS, App, Settings) and integration of JMP Techs (IC Pools / App Volumes / UEM)
6. Cloud Pod Architecture (CPA): Total sessions/sites for Cloud Pod are increased up to 200,000/10
7. TLS handshake protocol: Support v1.2 (Horizon 7 uses only TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2. In FIPS mode, it uses only TLSv1.2)
8. Horizon Help Desk Tool: is integrated into Horizon Console for troubleshooting desktop types (Win/Linux) and also monitoring some metrics such as state of Desktop/App session and Disk IOPS data.
9. Horizon Agent for Win desktops: Supporting HTML5 MMR for Edge browser, URL Content Redirection for subdirectories, monitoring user logon and tracking performance metrics. (Horizon Performance Tracker can be published by an application pool)
10. Simple Device Orientation (SDO) Sensor Redirection: Inside Horizon Agent, it can sense client screen changes and display a better view of the client device.
11. Horizon Agent for Linux desktops: Using UEM to control CDR & USB redirection features. Also, there is Help Desk Tool Support and Network Intelligence Transport Support for Blast to dynamically choose UDP/TCP data transmit for better user experience.

VMware Horizon 7.5 is an Extended Service Branch (ESB) for Horizon Enterprise deployments that are included the core Horizon 7 platform, App Volumes, and UEM and will receive periodic SP Updates: Cumulative, critical bug fixes and security fixes.