How to configure iLO in HP Servers ?

What is iLO ?
Integrated Lights Out is out of band management card in HP servers to monitor and manage the server on hardware level and to provide remote support, the great feature of this management card is you don’t have to be physically standing in front of the server to see if you hard disk has amber light etc.
Below tutorial will tell you how to configure iLO and will show you the basics of management interface.
iLO network cards are behind HP servers, below is the pic to show how it looks like (HP labels their iLO cards), the server I am showing below is HP ProLiant DL380 G8 server and has iLO4 card builtin to it.


Restart the server, press F8 to configure the iLO as per below image,


By default iLO is configured to have dynamic IP from DHCP, we will configure DHCP to be off , use right arrow button from keyboard and point to Network then DNS/DHCP.


Be default it is turned ON, press space to turn it to OFF


Since iLO is managed using IP, it is highly recommended to configure static IP address


In our my case we have chosen 10.100.100.100


Once you have configure the IP, start your server, once rebooted open up the browser from you management PC/Server and type in the IP (https://10.100.100.100)


Here you can see the interface (overview) of iLO


We will show you the system information – health summary page, this page as the title says give you detail information of your hardware, I purposely didn’t connected any of my NIC accept of iLO to give you an idea of how the system info page looks like.


Now click on the Network tab and you will see none of the NICs connected accept iLO.

That is all for the iLO configuration.

sumber : http://serverspike.net/archives/how-to-configure-ilo-in-hp-servers/

How To Install VMware vSphere Client on Windows 8

VMware vSphere Client is a client tool to manage VMware ESX and its VMs. It’s a basic but essential tool I need to manage my Virtual environment. But when I tried to install it on my Windows 8 machine, this is what I got.

This product can only be installed on Windows XP Sp2 and above

Well, Windows 8 is above XP SP2, isn’t it? Not sure who to blame but I guessed that a workaround would be needed to get me over this silly error.
And here is how.
1. Assume you already have the executable installation file, extract the content out of it to a folder. If you have 7Zip installed, you can simply right click the executable file, go to 7Zip, and choose Extract to folder name.
2. Go to the extracted folder, bin sub-folder, right click VMware-viclient.exe and choose Properties. Go to Compatibility tab, and check the option “Run this program in compatibility mode for” and pick Windows 7 from the list.

3. click OK to save the setting, and launch VMware-viclient.exe to start the installation again.
Woola…that’s the workaround that saved my day. It works on my vSphere 4.1 but according to here, it works on 5.0 as well.

/update on April 26, 2013/

If you are running vSphere 5.0., there is an update that has been released lately that should work fine on Windows 8. Check this post for the vSphere client download links.

sumber :

http://www.nextofwindows.com/how-to-install-vmware-vsphere-client-on-windows-8/