HP vibsdepot Readme
5.0_Aug_2011 Release
Version 1.0
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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™, VMware 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 products 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=HPVM06.
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.  
5.0_Aug_2011 vibsdepot Release Version 1.0 contains:
- HP ESXi 5.0 Management bundle – Management Providers
- HP ESXi 5.0 Utilities bundle – ESXCLI utilities such as HPBOOTCFG (boot order configuration) and HPONCFG (remote iLO configuration)
- HP ESXi 5.0 NMI bundle – The Non Maskable Interrupt (NMI) driver used to write VMware errors to the Insight Management Log (IML) 
Uses 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 /<bundle-directory> to the URL  
- Directly connect VUM to http://vibsdepot.hp.com/index.xml or for a specific bundle subdirectory http://vibsdepot.hp.com/<bundle-directory>/index.xml
- Download (copy) http://vibsdepot.hp.com for all the bundles or any specific bundle subdirectory to your local VMware depot
- Download (copy) http://vibsdepot.hp.com or a specific /<bundle-directory>/<offline-bundle-name>.zip to you local management console or the host and use the ESXCLI command.


	

5.0_ Aug_2011 vibsdepot Release Version 1.0 directory structure:
\5.0_Aug_2011_Readme.txt - This file
\index.htm - This readme file for use when web browsing to http://vibsdepot.hp.com
\HP_EULA.txt - End User License Agreement 
\HP_EULA.html - End User License Agreement for use when web browsing to http://vibsdepot.hp.com
\Index.xml – Image Builder default index file that points to vendor-index.xml
\vendor-index.xml – Lists product ID, version number and points to the hp metadata.zip
\hp-esxi-5.0.0-10-metadata.zip – A collection of vib xml files along with the Image Profile that defines the initial image
\hp-esxi5.0-bundle-1.0-20 – Management bundle directory for ESXi 5.0 version 1.0 build 20
	\hp-smx-provider-500.02.10.13.44-434156.vib – WBEM Providers
       \char-hpcru-5.0.0.8-1OEM.500.0.0.434156.x86_64.vib – CRU driver
	\char-hpilo-500.9.0.0.8-1OEM.500.0.0.434156.x86_x64.vib – iLO driver
	\hp-esxi5.0uX-bundle-1.0.20.zip – HP Offline Management Bundle 
	\index.xml
	\vendor-index.xml
	\metadata-hp-esxi5.0uX-bundle-1.0-20.zip	
\hp-HPUtil-esxi5.0-bundle-1.0-23 – Utilities bundle directory for ESXi 5.0 version 1.0 build23
	\char-hpilo-500.9.0.0.8-1OEM.500.0.0.434156.x86_64.vib
       \hpbootcfg-01-00.10.vib
       \hponcfg-03-02.04.vib
       \ hp-HPUtil-esxi5.0-bundle-1.0-23.zip
       \index.xml
       \ vendor-index.xml
       \ metadata-hp-HPUtil-esxi5.0-bundle-1.0-23.zip
\hp-nmi-esxi5.0-bundle-2.0-11 – NMI bundle directory for ESXi5.0 version 2.0 build 11
       \hpnmi-500.2.0.11-434156.vib
       \hp-nmi-esxi5.0-bundle-2.0-11.zip
       \index.xml
       \vendor-index.xml
       \metadata-hp-nmi-2.0-bundle.zip
\Archive – Directory containing previous releases 
Important Notes or Known Issues:
- None 
Contact information:
- vibsdepot@hp.com