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Redundant rom support, Safety and security benefits, Keeping the system current – HP ProLiant DL320e Gen8 Server User Manual

Page 70: Drivers, Software and firmware

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Software and configuration utilities 70

Diagnostics

DOS

Operating environments which do not provide native USB support

Redundant ROM support

The server enables you to upgrade or configure the ROM safely with redundant ROM support. The server has
a single ROM that acts as two separate ROM images. In the standard implementation, one side of the ROM

contains the current ROM program version, while the other side of the ROM contains a backup version.

NOTE:

The server ships with the same version programmed on each side of the ROM.

Safety and security benefits

When you flash the system ROM, ROMPaq writes over the backup ROM and saves the current ROM as a

backup, enabling you to switch easily to the alternate ROM version if the new ROM becomes corrupted for
any reason. This feature protects the existing ROM version, even if you experience a power failure while

flashing the ROM.

Keeping the system current

Drivers

IMPORTANT:

Always perform a backup before installing or updating device drivers.

The server includes new hardware that may not have driver support on all OS installation media.
If you are installing an Intelligent Provisioning-supported OS, use Intelligent Provisioning (on page

63

) and its

Configure and Install feature to install the OS and latest supported drivers.
If you do not use Intelligent Provisioning to install an OS, drivers for some of the new hardware are required.

These drivers, as well as other option drivers, ROM images, and value-add software can be downloaded as

part of an SPP.
If you are installing drivers from SPP, be sure that you are using the latest SPP version that your server
supports. To verify that your server is using the latest supported version and for more information about SPP,

see the HP website (

http://www.hp.com/go/spp/download

).

To locate the drivers for a particular server, go to the HP website (

http://www.hp.com/go/hpsc

) and click

on Drivers, Software & Firmware. Then, enter your product name in the Find an HP product field and click
Go.

Software and firmware

Software and firmware should be updated before using the server for the first time, unless any installed
software or components require an older version. For system software and firmware updates, download the

SPP ("

HP Service Pack for ProLiant

" on page

65

) from the HP website (

http://www.hp.com/go/spp

).