latoga labs

Technology of Business & Business of Technology

  • About
  • Contact
  • Carbon Lab
  • IoT Lab
  • View latoga’s profile on Twitter
  • View greglato’s profile on LinkedIn

© 2006–2023 · Log in

ESX 3.5 Update 4 Fixes ProcHot Status Issue

April 9, 2009 Leave a Comment

Yesterday one of my customers who runs HP Servers alerted me to a recent VMware KnowledgeBase article.  He was nice enough to annotate the article with some screens shots from his environment.   I received his permission to post this as today’s VMware Admin Guest Blogger.
So, if you’re running HP Servers and been annoyed by the error warning from the Intel ProcHot Sensor, ESX 3.5 Update 4 erases this annoyance.

—

Issue
On HP systems with the Intel PROCHOT sensor, a warning is issued, and yet the PROCHOT label is “Normal.” Furthermore, the HealthState setting of the sensor is “10”. This situation occurs because of an HP firmware issue where the digital discreet sensor asserts conflicting states. Below is a screen shot showing this in vCenter.

esx35u3-prochot-ss

Solution
This issue is resolved in ESX Server 3.5 Update 4 in that these conflicting states are now appropriately managed. Therefore, the sensor’s label and Healthstate setting would now be displayed as “Unknown,” which is proper given the information received from the firmware.

esx35u4-prochot-ss

Filed Under: Virtualization, VMware Tagged With: ESX3.5, HP Servers, ProcHot, Update 4, VMware

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Human Test: *

Click to cancel reply

About latoga labs

Welcome to the career blog of Greg A. Lato (latoga). Discussing topics around business transformation & disruption, data management, ML/AI, IoT/IIoT, cloud, and technology flotsam.

DISCLAIMER
Everything here reflects my views and opinions and not necessarily the views or opinions of any company, client, employer, or group associated with me.

TRANSPARENCY
I am currently a direct stockholder of AAPL, AMT, AMZN, ANET, BOFI, BRK, COUP, CTSH, DIS, FANUY, FB, GOOG, MELI, MIDD, NFLX, PRLB, PSTG, SHOP, TCEHY, TCX, THO, TSLA, TTD, TWLO, VEEV, WDAY.