Hi. I have a few DL380 G5s I bought from eBay. A few days ago, one of the drives died. I ordered new ones and popped one in last night. I was thinking today "is it done rebuilding the array?" so I did some research to try to find software that can tell me what's going on with the array. I ended up finding HP Smart Storage Administrator, which thankfully works on the DL380G5 /w Server 2012 unlike most things, grr. Anyway, I run it and it said a drive needs a firmware update. Did more research. I finally found a page that had firmware. I've no idea how to install it but thankfully there was instructions on the page. Step one was "Place the HP Service Pack for ProLiant on a USB key using the HP USB Key Creator Utility". I clicked the link to download HP Service Pack for ProLiant and found that one must have a warranty to get it, AUGH.
Sooo.. for those of us with secondhand ProLiants, how do we do the firmware upgrade on the drives? Any advice would be most welcome :)