Overview
Welcome to the HP vibsdepot. This site at http://vibsdepot.hp.com provides our customers and partners with online access to the HP developed VMware® Bundles for use with VMware® vSphere 5.0 Image Builder, Update Manager (VUM) and ESXCLI. It is assumed you are familiar with these applications and command line utilities and if needed should refer to the VMware® vSphere 5.0 documentation along with VMware.com for further information.
The HP bundles that are provided on the vibsdepot are an important solution for the management and configuration of HP Industry Standard Servers and are already integrated in the HP Customized VMware® ESXi 5.0 image available at https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=HPVM09.
You can also easily install the HP Bundles from vibsdepot on your VMware® ESXi 5.0 image as offline bundle ZIP files with ESXCLI and VUM or integrated as part of your customized ESXi 5.0 image creation with Image Builder.
Use Cases:
- Directly add the vibsdepot with Image Builder PowerCLI command Add-EsxSoftwareDepot to http://vibsdepot.hp.com for all the bundles or with any specific bundle subdirectory by appending the respective <bundle-directory> to the URL
- Directly connect VUM to http://vibsdepot.hp.com/index.xml or for a specific bundle subdirectory via
http://vibsdepot.hp.com/<bundle-directory>/index.xml
- Download (or copy) http://vibsdepot.hp.com for all the bundles or any specific bundle subdirectory to your local VMware® depot
- Download (or copy) http://vibsdepot.hp.com or a specific <bundle-directory>/<offline-bundle-name>.zip to you local management console or to the host and use the ESXCLI command
5.0_Aug_2011 vibsdepot Release Version 1.0
- HP ESXi 5.0 Management bundle Management Providers
- HP ESXi 5.0 Utilities bundle with ESXCLI utilities such as HPBOOTCFG (boot order configuration) and HPONCFG (remote iLO configuration)
- HP ESXi 5.0 NMI bundle with the Non Maskable Interrupt (NMI) driver used to write VMware® errors to the Insight Management Log (IML)
Typical directory structure elements:
- HP_EULA.htm
- End User License Agreement
- index.xml
- Image Builder default index file that points to vendor-index.xml (available in main and each bundle directory)
- vendor-index.xml
- Lists product ID, version number and points to the hp metadata.zip (available in main and each bundle directory)
- hp-esxi-5.0.0-1.0-metadata.zip
- A collection of vib xml files along with the Image Profile that defines the initial image