In the world of enterprise virtualization, the combination of VMware’s hypervisor and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) server hardware is a match made in IT heaven. However, using a generic VMware ESXi ISO on HPE ProLiant servers is like putting regular fuel in a high-performance sports car—it will run, but you will miss out on critical optimizations.
A successful installation will show a list of installed VIBs, such as hpe-ams , hpe-smartarray , ilo , and ssacli2 .
If you are using HPE Synergy systems, there are specialized custom images distinct from standard ProLiant images.