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I have tried to stay away from the 3rd party/vendor images because I've heard from quite a few VMware admins at VMUGs that they include additional items and cause instability with the host OS. &nbsp;Which is why I was looking at this to minimize the risk (hopefully).
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I have updated my notes for that and i found the 6.0 version online to. &nbsp;Thank you.
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I have tried to stay away from the 3rd party/vendor images because I've heard from quite a few VMware admins at VMUGs that they include additional items and cause instability with the host OS. &nbsp;Which is why I was looking at this to minimize the risk (hopefully).
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Ask 12 different VMware Admins at a VMUG, and you'll get 12 different answers!<br />
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HP, DELL, IBM, Lenovo..... often will not support you if you do not use the OEM version!<br />
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As with all versions of ESXi, especially true of 6.0, every version gets worse!<br />
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we have ESX 2.5.4 still in production, rock solid, far better than any later version!
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I have built an HP Insight Manager (SIM) Server and have connected our Windows servers, but now I'm looking at our VMware systems. &nbsp;I know if ESXi systems are built with the HP image it has all of these items by default, but most of our systems are using the general VMware image.<br />
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My steps would include:<br />
Check VMware vs HP image...by opening the file /bootbank/oem/oem.txt <br />
Download HP bundles from the depot<br />
esxcli software vib install -d &lt;ESXi local path&gt;&lt;bundle.zip&gt;<br />
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The question i have is which of the four HP bundles do i have to install to get this connected to SIM? &nbsp;I like to install a little as possible so i'm hoping i don't need all four files.<br />
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hp-nmi-esxi5.5-bundle-2.3.<wbr />5<br />
hp-ams-esxi5.5-bundle-10.3<wbr />.0-7<br />
hp-HPUtil-esxi5.5-bundle-2<wbr />.4-5<br />
hp-esxi5.5uX-bundle-2.4-16<wbr />
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I have built an HP Insight Manager (SIM) Server and have connected our Windows servers, but now I'm looking at our VMware systems.  I know if ESXi systems are built with the HP image it has all of these items by default, but most of our systems are using the general VMware image.

My steps would include:
Check VMware vs HP image...by opening the file /bootbank/oem/oem.txt 
Download HP bundles from the depot
esxcli software vib install -d <ESXi local path><bundle.zip>

The question i have is which of the four HP bundles do i have to install to get this connected to SIM?  I like to install a little as possible so i'm hoping i don't need all four files.

hp-nmi-esxi5.5-bundle-2.3.5
hp-ams-esxi5.5-bundle-10.3.0-7
hp-HPUtil-esxi5.5-bundle-2.4-5
hp-esxi5.5uX-bundle-2.4-16

VMware ESXi 5.5 and SIM

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VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.

VMware

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