Prepare a USB flash drive for reimaging an appliance

Prerequisites
IMPORTANT:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise recommends preparing a USB flash drive immediately after updating the appliance firmware so that you always have a USB flash drive that matches the currently installed version of HPE OneView.

For environments with multiple versions of HPE OneView, create separate USB drives, one for each version.

  • Computer running either Linux or a Microsoft Windows operating system

  • USB flash drive with 4 GB of memory or greater

  • Internet connection

Procedure
  1. Identify the version of the appliance image.

    View the firmware version on the Appliance panel of the HPE OneView Settings screen.

    The firmware version that is displayed is the version of the image that you will download in step 5 and include on the USB drive.

  2. Insert the USB flash drive in the computer’s USB port.
  3. If necessary, delete any unnecessary partitions to ensure adequate disk space.
  4. Format the USB flash drive for one FAT32 partition or W95 FAT32 using these guidelines:
    • For a Linux operating system, use /sbin/fdisk /dev/sdx where x represents the numerical drive of the USB port used.

    • For a Windows operating system, right click the USB icon in the Computer window and select Format.
      NOTE:

      For specific information on the procedure to format the USB flash drive, see the HPE OneView Help for HPE Synergy for the operating system.

    • Specify a label for your USB drive. It can be any name you want, except EMBEDDED, which is a reserved name. Consider using the date as part of the label.

    • Create only one primary partition. Delete any existing partitions if necessary.

    • If prompted, specify the following parameters:
      • Capacity: maximum value

      • Allocation unit size: 4096 bytes

      • First and last block: default values

  5. Download the compressed image (.zip file) from this website:
  6. Unzip the compressed image.
  7. Copy the contents of the compressed image to the USB flash drive.
    IMPORTANT:

    Do not rename the files.

  8. Optional. Remove the USB flash drive and store it for future use.