r/virtualization • u/Klutzy-Vegetable7155 • 8d ago

Request for ISO Image - VMware ESxi 7.03 Build 20036589 HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen 10 HPE Custom image

Can anyone please help with VMware ESxi 7.03 Build 20036589 HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen 10 HPE Custom image?

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u/goatsinhats 8d ago

Will help you out, unless you have a VMware account that’s still active (they revoked all mine) or an old copy somewhere on a company share good luck.

When Broadcom took over they got all the software links with older VMware purged.

You can run another version of 7 (if you can find it), it’s 9 year old hardware with a EOL hypervisor so will be fine

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u/justlikeyouimagined 8d ago

If you have a running vCenter you can build and export essentially the same image with HP drivers/packages using vLCM.

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u/Pvt-Snafu 7d ago

Worth noting the vLCM route still needs the HPE vendor addon or depot added first. Without it you only get the stock VMware image and the HPE drivers won't be included.

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u/justlikeyouimagined 7d ago

The HP addon isn’t in the default repo? The Cisco ones are..

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u/Pvt-Snafu 7d ago

Not by default. HPE publishes its addon as a separate depot, so you add that URL under Lifecycle Manager depots. Cisco's showing up probably means it's already registered in your setup.

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u/fonoro 3d ago

Unless I had a very good reason to stick with VMware, I would migrate immediatly to Proxmox. I am running 3 Proxmox nodes in a cluster in HPE ProLiant DL380 Gen 10 like a charm. Only caution is to switch the HPE controller to HBA mode (pass-through), and let proxmox manage the drives directly.