I had a few issues upgrading a 5.1.0 ESXi host in a cluster and have not gotten much support here or from HPE since they see no hardware issues via logs I sent them to analyze, so I think I want to do a clean install of 5.5.0 pm that host, which is what I was trying to upgrade to so that we can continue to progressively upgrade our vSphere entire environment to our goal of 6.5 (highest our hardware allows). It had 2 issues I detailed here:
1. Booting up, it gets stuck indefinitely on this message : 'Loading ipmi_si_drv'
2. Following the same exact procedure used to upgrade the other 3 hosts in the cluster, this 4th host fails with an error: "Cannot create a ramdisk of size 384MB to store the upgrade image".
So, I have a few question for this process: Can I use the same Custom Build HPE 5.5.0 ISO I download, which I imported into VMware Update Manager, to perform the fresh install? How do I rejoin the cluster it was in? Do i need to configure network & HA/DRS settings manually or is there a way to automatically configure it to match the cluster settings when it joins? Is there a step by step guide for doing this?
Current System Specs:
vCenter Server: WIndows Server
version 5.5.0 8803859
4 x ESXi Hosts in a cluster:
HPE ProLiant DL380p, 12 CPUs x 2.892GHz E5-2667
394GB RAM
Local storage: 274GB HP serial attached SCSI Disks
Shared storage: 7 x 700GB disks in a cluster (fiber)
~50+ Running VMs, balanced
**3 of the 4 hosts: ESXi 5.5.0 3568722
Remaining Host: ESXi 5.1.0 3872664