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I have a C3000 Bade Enclosure with eight BL460Gc Servers therein attached to a SAN. &nbsp;This was setup by a consultant and I now require rebuilding one of the Blade Servers with a vanilla Win 2008 R2 install. &nbsp;<br />
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What is best practice in terms of how I install the HP firmware after the OS is installed?
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I have a C3000 Bade Enclosure with eight BL460Gc Servers therein attached to a SAN.  This was setup by a consultant and I now require rebuilding one of the Blade Servers with a vanilla Win 2008 R2 install.  

What is best practice in terms of how I install the HP firmware after the OS is installed?

Installing HP Firmware on a Blade BL460cG6

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Server Hardware

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Storage

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