In my homelab I am currently running HPE DL360 Gen8 servers fitted with Dell branded Broadcom BCM57402 10GbE network adaptors. As they are Dell badged, firmware updates are not supported via the iLO or Intelligent Provisioning interfaces available on the DL360s, so how do we go about updating the firmware on these cards?
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VMware ESXi, 7.0 u1d (17551050) – BCM57402 Issue
This evening I thought I’d update my homelab to the latest vSphere 7.0u1d. I had some issues with updating my VCSA via the VAMI. Ultimately that was all resolved by performing the update using the cli without issue. However when I came to update my hosts, two of them seemingly updated fine but the third one got stuck.
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Homelab Journey – Part 1: The First Lab
So, as promised, here is part one of my homelab journey! In this series of posts I don’t expect to be detailing technical configs and step by step guides on how my homelab got to where it is today, but rather I plan to just share my journey in the hope that it’s vaguely interesting and/or useful!
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