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Importantnote: HP ProLiant Server firmware access

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This is probably the root of why they are doing this. Basically obsoleting hardware that is not covered under a support contract. This will have a direct impact on the secondary hardware market. Unless these resellers have a support contract they may be selling perfectly good hardware that may not run the current OS.

-Industries like education and non-profits also rely more on the secondary market. HP just torpedoed that. Who would want to take a risk on an off lease server that you may not be able to get to function? I think anyone that leases should consider that as residual value of servers should plummet with this decision.

It already is, HP is just adding to it. HP did this last year for their Integrity and 9000 line of servers (even though most of those models were well beyond end of life). Oracle did this to their Sun hardware line a long time ago. A lot of people complained, threatened class action suits from what I heard. Im not aware that anything changed. IBM pulled public access to their Power system firmware a while ago as well. What IBM just implemented is restricted to access to downloads relating only to what you actually have under contract. HP plans to do the same thing according to their document found online. I guess this restricts someone from having a single system under warranty from being able to download firmware for every other model.

If I am forced to pay HP to get updated drivers/firmware for older equipment not under warranty and not critical enough to warrant extended support, that will now greatly reduce the value of that equipment. If they had offered access to the downloads if you have ANY server hardware under warranty, it would be less of an impact and actually encourage me to buy newer servers. This policy means the support costs for HP equipment purchases will be much higher than they were previously. I have to take this into account when purchasing anything new. The net effect is that I am no longer an HP only shop.

Note: I've installed SPP2016.10.0 in these servers with Windows 2008 R2 and also with Windows 2012 R2 without any issue and are working as expected BUT I want something official as I'm trying to update the firmware/drivers to our main servers in the production enviroment.

I don't think there is any documentation that states server or generation X is no longer supported by SPP X. I've always gone by that if a system/generation isn't listed in the SPP 20XX.XX.X Server Support Guide:, it isn't supported by that SPP release

Upgrade Requirement:

Optional - Users should update to this version if their system is affected by one of the documented fixes or if there is a desire to utilize any of the enhanced functionality provided by this version.

We have a couple of oldish HP Proliant servers -- one DL385 G1 and one DL360 G5, to be exact -- that we'd like to upgrade from CentOS 5 to Ubuntu LucidLynx. The problem is that HP doesn't offer Ubuntu Proliant Support Packs for these particular models.

I went to HPs Software Delivery Repository, read through the getting started guide and read the FAQ and ended up having additional sources.list files with allowed me to simply run aptitude install hp-health hp-snmp-agents.

Well there's nothing wrong just using the standard code, you'll be missing a few drivers with extra prefailure warnings etc. but nothing functional really. That said if you have the time there's no harm just giving it a go with the PSP, worst comes to worst it's a reinstall so maybe try it as soon as you've done the basic install. I'm surprised the G5 isn't supported, there's not that much difference from a hardware perspective between that and the G6 bar the processor and memory types.

I can't find the link now, but I have seen people report that they were able to install the PSP on Debian/Ubuntu systems. I know that part of the process was running the .rpm through alien to convert it to a .deb package. Try that and see where that gets you.

I personally recommend installing the PSP for the benefits of the improved hardware support (drivers, and notification), as well as the Systems Management Homepage (SMH). If you have SNMP monitoring in your environment, it should also improve your system's visibility.

so i did Buy Proliant ML110 Gen 9 That have Dynamic Smart Array B140i Raid with insidein the first look the Server has 4 Disk port in the front that can connect to SAS Disk so i did buy 2 SAS disk but they doesn't turn-on and i can't find them in the HP smart Storage , i did also connect SATA HDD drive work fine and i can find him using Linux OS

when searching in google i did find that the Smart Array B140i Raid doesn't support SAS disk if that true !! mean while HP proliant support SAS Disk and also have SAS Disk Connecteris there a solution to connect those 2 SAS disk

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By adding the product to HCL, Check Point commits on full support for it under specified software version.

It means end customer will be fully covered by TAC and R&D in case he will need an assistance.

Check Point appliances are passing all needed tests by default. This is our main branch of hardware.

However, understanding the needs, we are trying our best to certify also 3rd party equipment which has bunch of varieties. Also we are not focusing on one specific brand, proving wide angle of choice.

This concept has pros and cons as any other. And despite of numerous pros, the cons is a time needed for certification.

This why we decided, first of all, go based on customer's requirement and considered RFE as the most suitable way of getting the certification requests.

It helps to get organized information, understand the exact hardware requirements (as again 3rd party has many different option for extra hardware), prioritize and track all of them.

Well, Gen 11 is now finally there and Check Point HCL team still has not validated the previous platform (Gen10 Plus). How many customers have to place a formal request until a industry standard platform like a HPE DL server is validated by HCL team?

To give another example: We have a placed a formal HCL request to support any buyable 10GBase-T NIC on HPE platform about 400 days ago. That was already a long time after the 10GBase-T NICs on HCL (561T) were not sold anymore. It should be a very easy task, because the successor "HPE Ethernet 10Gb 2-port FLR-T X550-AT2 Adapter" uses the same chip like the Intel "Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X550-T2" which is already on the HCL. But today there is still no validation done by CP HCL team.

I appreciated the commitment to continue support Open Server during the R81.20 TechTalk. However, this means that there must be a suffient ressource commitment to HCL team. And features like Dynamic Balancing, HyperFlow and LightSpeed that are not supported on Open Server also do not underline the Open Server commitment.

It's quite possible this or any hardware requires (versions of) drivers that are not present in current versions.

This requires some development effort (either to backport the necessary drivers or upgrade the kernel).

This is why HCL requests are treated as an RFE and should be worked closely with your Check Point SE.

Please, do you have any configuration of the HPE Gen10Plus or Gen11 that has been tested with R81.20 and we are able to use as compatible hardware? I believe that there was any RFE about it that finished and maybe you can suggest us to utilize.

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