HPE iLO 5 TLS SSL Settings

People who work with me or have done in the past will know I’m really keen on ensuring TLS/SSL settings and certificates are properly implemented wherever possible. In this post I’m going to cover some of the nice features in Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) latest iLO. If you’re not familiar, HPE provide IPMI functionality via … Read more

HPE Discover 2016 Slides and Presentations

I meant to post this shortly after the HPE ‘Discover’ event in London last December but unfortunately it slipped my mind and it was only this week when I went looking for a particular presentation that I remembered. For anyone who attended the event I’m sure you had a great time and came away with … Read more

HPE Discover -London 2016

Really happy to have been invited to the HPE Discover event in London this year. I got an invite last year and really enjoyed my time there. It’s a great opportunity to see what HPE and their partners have planned and all the new hardware and software we can wish to play with. I hope … Read more

HPE C7000 Blade Chassis SSL Certificate Replacement

The SSL/TLS certificates on my HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) C7000 blade chassis expired this week and therefore required replacing. I’m a strong believer in always replacing certificates with valid ones generated by a certificate authority (CA). In my mind there isn’t much excuse in a business to not have an internal CA for this sort … Read more

HPE 3PAR Change DNS Settings

I recently setup a DNS iApp on the F5 load balancers in my datacenters and felt it was time to migrate the Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) 3PAR storage arrays DNS to point to this new virtual IP (VIP) rather than to the static DNS server it currently used. I will demonstrate the command line syntax for … Read more