Tag: HPE

“Windows could not prepare the computer to boot into the next phase of installation” error when installing Server 2022 on HPE Proliant server

I’d been trying to install Windows Server 2022 onto a HPE Proliant server remotely with media plugged in virtually via the ILO and kept running into this error. The install target was a standard RAID1 configured pair of disks, and I spent a lot of time looking at this disk setup, as right when the disks are being partitioned and the file copies start is when the error is thrown.

However, the target was not the problem. What was causing a problem was the internal SD card slot, and the fact that had an SD card with the previous ESXi install on it. Following the HPE instructions to disable the SD card slot and then re-attempting the install was the fix in this case.

Ultimately I don’t know why having the SD card available interferes with the Windows install process, but clearly it does.

HP VMWare VIB Sources Not Connected – HP Killed The Old Pre-Rebrand URLS

I noticed today that when in the VMWare Update Manager in admin view, some of the custom VIBs I had in were showing as “Not Connected”. This was my custom location for HP VIBs of http://vibsdepot.hp.com/index.xml as I use the HP image on the hosts in this vCenter. When I forced VUM to check the URL again, it was coming back again as “Not Connected”. So I thought I would try loading the XML file in a browser, which presented me with this lovely little “notification”;

HP_VIB_Redirect

I say “notification” as what they’ve done is use a redirect to point you to a different URL, which then contains the message that you must use a different URL now.
The new HP VIB URL is https://vibsdepot.hpe.com/index.xml and note the https rather than http.

Adding the new updated URL to the XML file get’s us right back into a connected state;

HP_VIB_Connected

This has obviously been done following the HP and HPE split that was announced a few years ago, but which is obviously just starting to have consequences for things like this.

I hope this helps someone out.