How to change iLO IP from ESXi

I ran into an issue at work, where the iLO lost all its settings after a hardware intervention. The host was running fine and the iLO NIC was connected, but the IP configuration was missing. Because this is a remote site, it would be easy if the configuration could be set from within ESXi. Luckily, this is a possibility! Installing the tools The first thing we need to do is download the VIB from the HPE website....

2 July, 2021 · 2 min · Maarten Van Driessen

How to reset iLO password from ESXi

Everyone’s been here before, you know the iLO password should be set to something, only to find out that on just this one server the password is different. There are several ways to reset the iLO password; you could reboot the server and reset it that way. But who likes planning downtime on a server for a password reset? Luckily you find that the server is an ESXi host that was installed using the HPE customized image....

18 October, 2019 · 3 min · Maarten Van Driessen