How to Fix PSOD ESXI 6.5 ON HPE G7 SERVERS

Problem commonly happens on G7 Servers.

It would appear that one driver is causing this in the 6.5 image,  “hpe-smx-provider” (650.03.11.00.17-4240417). Installing the standard ESXI 6.5 ISO does allow the server to boot, but is missing a lot of drivers and does not give the pretty all-inclusive system stats that the HPE ISO does.

Below is a quick instruction on how to build a custom ISO to fix this.

Download PowerCLI for Windows.

Download
VMware-ESXi-6.5.0-Update1-6765664-HPE-650.U1.9.6.5.1-Nov2017-depot.zip
VMware-ESXi-6.0.0-Update3-5050593-HPE-600.9.7.0.17-Feb2017-depot.zip
Put Both into same directory I put mine in d:\esx

Power PowerCLI
Add-EsxSoftwareDepot .\VMware-ESXi-6.5.0-Update1-6765664-HPE-650.U1.9.6.5.1-Nov2017-depot.zip

New-EsxImageProfile -CloneProfile HPE-ESXi-6.5.0-Update1-650* -Name "ESXICUST"

Remove-EsxSoftwarePackage ESXICUST hpe-smx-provider

Add-EsxSoftwareDepot .\VMware-ESXi-6.0.0-Update3-5050593-HPE-600.9.7.0.17-Feb2017-depot.zip

Add-EsxSoftwarePackage -ImageProfile ESXICUST -SoftwarePackage "hpe-smx-provider 600.03.11.00.9-2768847"

Export-EsxImageProfile -ImageProfile ESXICUST -ExportToIso ESXI65.iso

Zoneminder on Centos 7 Howto

Quick guide to install Zoneminder on Centos 7

Install Centos Using minimal
yum install update

Add RPM Fusion REPO
yum localinstall --nogpgcheck https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/el/rpmfusion-free-release-7.noarch.rpm 

Install zoneminder
yum install zoneminder

Install MariaDB
yum install mariadb

Enable and start service
systemctl enable mariadb
systemctl start  mariadb.service

Create DB for Zoneminder
mysql -uroot -p < /usr/share/zoneminder/db/zm_create.sql
mysql -uroot -p -e "grant all on zm.* to \
                'zmuser'@localhost identified by 'zmpass';"
mysqladmin -uroot -p reload

Edit date.timezone in /etc/php.ini

Disable SELinux
setenforce 0
edit /etc/selinux/config
change "enforcing" to "disabled"

Install mod_ssl
yum install mod_ssl

Enable and start httpd service
systemctl enable httpd
systemctl start httpd

Enable and start zoneminder service
systemctl enable zoneminder
systemctl start zoneminder

Open https in firewalld
firewall-cmd --permanent --add-service=https
firewall-cmd --reload

Access Zoneminder via http://server-ip/zm