Last HPE Pre-Gen9 ESXi 6.5 U3 Custom Image
HPE has released the last custom image for Pre-Gen9 ProLiant servers. Actually, the Pre-Gen9 was just Gen8! Seems, HPE Gen8 ProLiant is retiring.
HPE released ESXi 6.7 U3 custom image as well and it does support Gen9 and Gen10.
What’s Changed?
Same as all previous custom images, there were some changes on device drivers, management bundles and also ESXi image.
All the custom images have been created from latest ESXi image. Also you can find the other changes via the below links:
ESXi 6.7 U3:
Driver Versions in HPE supplied VMware ESXi images
ESXi 6.5 U3 (G9 Plus, Pre-G9):
Driver Versions in HPE supplied VMware ESXi images
Download Links
The custom images are available on VMware:
ESXi 6.7 U3 Dec 2019 – Support Gen9 Servers and forward
ESXi 6.7 U3 HPE bundled qfle.1.0.87 but this version
Enhancements
This product now remove supports Synergy and Blade Server.
https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/swd/public/detail?swItemId=MTX_596bb468ec0842c3906bd0c3f8#tab-history
end supported only
This product contains the following drivers:
qcnic, version 1.0.27.0
qfle3i, version 1.0.25.0
qfle3, version 1.0.87.0
qfle3f, version 1.0.75.0
Supported Devices and Features:
These drivers support the following network adapters:
HP Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 530SFP+ Adapter
HP Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 530T Adapter
HP Ethernet 10Gb 2-port 533FLR-T Adapter
HP FlexFabric 10Gb 2-port 534FLR-SFP+ Adapter
HP StoreFabric CN1100R Dual Port Converged Network Adapter
HPE StoreFabric CN1100R-T Dual Port Converged Network Adapter
the link to ESXi 6.5 U3 Dec 2019 – Last Pre-Gen9 custom image points to a file called “VMware-ESXi-6.5.0-Update3-14990892-HPE-Gen9plus-650.U3.10.5.0.67-Dec2019.iso”: doesn’t look like a PreGen9 image…