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Unable to create Update Baseline: HostUpgradeChecksumFailure

GeneNZ — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 01:49:01 GMT

Hi there,

Yesterday we just upgraded all our systems to vSphere 4 U1. I wanted to go the route of using VUM Upgrade Baselines since I had already downloaded the ISO/Zip files for U1 in the weekend. However, each time the VUM server tried to import the the appropriate U1 ISO/Zip for both ESX and ESXi, after what appeared to be a successful upload to the server, I received a "Failed to import upgrade. Error was: File Upload Error". This problem occurrs regardless of whether I uploaded from a remote client or the vCenter server itself. Subsequent retries comes up with the same error.

This is happening on our newly upgraded vCenter 4 U1 . I don't know if it ever worked on the prior vCenter 4, since I never utilized the Upgrade Baseline feature, as I just used standard VUM patching to update my servers, which worked a treat. I believe the patching still works after the upgrade.

I have checked my VUM Logs, and each time an upload, I receive the same consistent error:

In vmware-vum-server.log I receive:
~~2009-11-24 14:22:41.998 04468 error 'SOAP'~~ Method integrity.UpgradeProductManager.importProduct threw undeclared fault of type integrity.fault.HostUpgradeChecksumFailure

In vum-log4j-fileupload.log I receive:
See Attached

Figuring its a Checksum Failure, I download the files again and double check the MD5sums, which are all correct. Yet the same error occurs. I have gone as far as reinstalling the VUM server a couple of times to start afresh, with no luck.

We are running on Win 2008 Std x86 and there are no other software applications on the vCenter server, other than SQL Server 2005 and vCenter itself(so no port conflicts). The VUM has been fresh installed with the default SSL keys, and has an SQL Server 2005 Backend database residing on the same machine.

I have opened a case with VMWare, but they haven't been totally responsive (I received an email from a support agent saying that he has been assigned my case and will contact me soon, and that's it so far... so much for Gold Support). If anyone has any ideas it would be most welcome!

Thanks in advance,

Gene

High ESX Host CPU Utilization After Installing Update Manager

jesszen — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:11:13 GMT

I installed vCenter Server last week and added 4 x ESX 3.5 host to it. Looks great! Today I install Update Manager for vCenter and about 10 minutes later I got alarms that my 4 host were at 95%-100% CPU utilization. I killed the update manager process and even the vCenter Server process and the servers are running at 85% + and it is 3.5 hours later. Any ideas why CPU utilization is so high above average with both those services stopped? Normal usage is between 25%-35%

Trying to upload ESX4 iso - Failed to login

pricemc1 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:17:07 GMT

I found this problem to be caused by McAfee VirusScan antivirus on-access protection rules installed on the vCenter server. If you have McAfee software installed on your vCenter server check the On-Access Protection Log for items that may be getting blocked by McAfee. Once I updated the offending McAfee rules and restarted the "VMware Update Manager" and the "VMware VirtualCenter Management Webservices" services I no longer had the issue.

Mike

Question about duplicated VMkernel ip-address

Nemo7777 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:40:47 GMT

Hi there,

do you mean what problem was with VM, but not with some kind of physical hardware, which was in use in the same network segment?

Question because I have several VMs, and each of them have correct MAC-address (00:50:56), and all of them were in use long time already.

The intrusion was done from the device with MAC started from '00:11:43'... Also, I thought what every new created VM has a entity about itself in VC/ESX event log file...Also -as I found in ESX event tab -every ESX have one entity about duplicate ip-address, and all these entities between all ESX-servers have different timestamp, and the difference is about 10 seconds...

So, does this message mean what problem was with some kind of VM or it's possible what it was some kind of physical hardware (notebook for example)

p.s. we have no DHCP- server there... all VMs have statical ip-addresses.

Reporting on compliance...

duhaas — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:07:05 GMT

Just looking for a way to create reporting based on baselines and their corresponding compliance? Dont see much through the vcenter interface, but figured maybe with powershell, or some other api it can be done??

Patches could not be installed

HaM1 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:41:10 GMT

Sorry for pushing the threat, but i can't believe that I'm the only one with this problem...?!

Best regards
Sebastian

WSUS and VMware patches

Jdsony5 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:25:00 GMT

thanks for the reply guys. cheers

cannot upgrade ESX4 to ESX 4 Update1

vmwaredownload — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:29:15 GMT

Hi,

After upgrading Vcenter 4 to vCenter 4 Update1 and putting the ESX 4 Update 1 iso into the Update Manager repository
i created a baseline..when trying to remdiate my ESX 4 hosts, im gettin the following error:

Upgrade is not supported from host version 4.0.0 build 175625 to release version 4.0.0 update 1
Build 208167

and

Update Manager silent install works but can't install plugin

alasdair.carnie — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:40:55 GMT

I'd like to do a silent install of VUM using the default SQL express DB, but I can't find any information on how this can be done. Any help would be appreciated.

VUM and erroneous disk space installation issue

gary1012 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:42:04 GMT

Issue resolved by moving to another LUN... Not sure why it would not install on the original two LUNs. Will advise if root cause found.

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not able to download patches in VMware Update Manager

Byron_Zhao — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:20:24 GMT

Troy,

I don't know what else to say, but thank you.

I think I ran into this KB before. Tried it, but it didn't work. That was the time I sent request to our network team to have those three domains open up in our proxy. After they did, I removed the proxy setting in VMware Update Manager. That was the time, IE worked on those websites, but Update Manager didn't. While I was trying to reply you with a "not working" after I saw the KB you mentioned, something in my mind told me to try it anyway. Guess what? The Test Connection works for the first time. When I clicked on Download, I could see it start downloading patches to the local folder.

Compliance is Missing

InfraArch — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:12:34 GMT

I have applied ESX host patches using VUM, and I also got the ambiguous 'missing' categorization against some patches. I applied them anyway, and they worked fine. The deduction I made from that is that 'missing' identifies a patch known to be missing from the host, and 'staged' is for patches that are not able to be identified as 'missing'.

Update Manager - Error connecting to VMware vCenter Update Manager - Database temporarily unavailable or has network problems.

kattrap — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:05:40 GMT

Same issue as Ron. I either get the service started with the builtin SYSTEM user and a database login failure message using NT/anonymous or I change the service to start with the db owner account (which is how it was working with 2.5 u4) and the service won't start. SQL Auth is not an option for our shop. The logs i believe are just showing a crash and dump when the service fails to start correctly.

The VM needs to be moved to another host?

dflint — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:26:26 GMT

This is a totally new setup so I first had to learn how to configure vMotion.
Works great. Update complete.
Thank you.

List of current patches

jeffoutwest — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:30:29 GMT

Thanks Troy, helpful response.

I would like to hear from folks and their experiences using the RCLI

Can't enable Update Manager

llamaware — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:10:31 GMT

My problem is similar to the one found in this discussion:

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/214413?start=0&tstart=0

I have installed Vcenter on a VM, and on a seperate VM installed Update Manager. During the Installation of Update Manager I followed all the steps and pointed the Update Manager at my Vcenter server (They are both Windows Server 2008 SP2). It recognizes that the Update Manager has been installed, however when I right click enable, nothing happens. It is a clean install and there are no older Plug-Ins installed. I have rebuild the Update Manager VM a few times and still have the same problem. When I run a netstat on the VCenter server it shows the IP Connection and the correct port is established. Has anyone else had this problem/Any Suggestions

Update Manager/UMDS Error (Disconnect Environment)

Texiwill — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:10:33 GMT

Hello,

Moved to Update Manager Forum.

Best regards,
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No Enough Storage Error in Vcenter?

Texiwill — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 19:37:17 GMT

Hello,

Moved to the Update Manager Forum.

I think either your repository does not have enough space or your DB.

Best regards,
Edward L. Haletky VMware Communities User Moderator, VMware vExpert 2009
Virtualization Practice Analyst
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usage of Update manager

xybal — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:48:18 GMT

ok, thx You finally gave me a logical response to why it didn't work

Thx for all

VUM Baseline Details Blank

Troy Clavell — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 16:04:56 GMT

that is a little odd. can you run the sceduled task again for VUM, once complete try to scan for updates and remediate again?

VMWare Update Manager Extension never installs?

Minimouse — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:11:18 GMT

Ok. Here's the solution to this bug. Yes it's a bug. If you're involved in the dev teams of VMware, please pay attention to this and open a case if not already opened ye :

Thanks to this post : http://communities.vmware.com/thread/238064 , you have to edit the PATH variable on your system, remove the last " (quote) that has nothing to do here. Close then the VI client and reopen it.You should now see the UM Client plugin status saying "Enabled" and might access the Update Manager from "Home" tab in the vCenter.

Mini.

Update Scan fails with unknown failure

mcvmwaresupport — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:43:22 GMT

I've a strange issue happening on my vSphere environment. When I try to scan a cluster or an individual host, I get the error:

Scan Entity
esxserver
VMware vCenter Update Manager had an
unknown failure. Check Tasks and Events
tab and logs for more details.
user
11/11/2009 7:38:08 PM
11/11/2009 7:38:08 PM
11/11/2009 7:38:09 PM

When I get into the events on a host, I see the following:

Failed to scan esxserver
for patches
error
11/11/2009 7:38:09 PM
Scan Entity
esxserver
user

XXX TaskEvent.formatOnHost not found XXX
XXX TaskEvent.category not found XXX
11/11/2009 7:38:08 PM
Scan Entity
esxserver
user

This all started this past week. I'm not sure what could have caused this, but I'm having trouble figuring out where to go from here. Any ideas?

update manager baseline dynamic

Wimo — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:46:20 GMT

Three recently released patches for 3.5 (200910401, 03, 06) were downloaded into the non-critical baseline. A couple weeks ago our vulnerability assessment team contacted my team about those 3, which are now considered critical (no idea how that came about). So pending the outcome of a meeting this afternoon, I will probably have to scoot those guys over into the critical baseline and schedule another round of patching.

Remediate entity just sits at 33%

joemailey — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:45:20 GMT

Only way I got mine to work was to do the patches 1 at a time.

1 update took up to 30 minutes to complete. Now when I say 1 update I mean it only was that update.

Thing I don't like about it is you don't get any information that the ESX server is doing anything.

my advice is to do one update at a time. Seemed to work for me. But I had to reboot the server that was running vCenter update manage and reboot the ESX server and then proceed to do one update at a time.

Update Manager Service not starting when vCenter server restarts

pacmantravis — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:54:05 GMT

Thank you for this, but I was not able to repair update manager through the add/remove programs. I could only remove it.

In the meantime, I just removed and reinstalled vCenter and all is well now.

Upgrading hosts from 3.5 U1 to 3.5 U4 taking 3 times normal duration

jmedd — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:00:49 GMT

OK, the feedback from VMware support is that approx 1 hour for this kind of patching is fairly normal within an environment our size. It seems there is a direct correlation between how busy your Virtual Center is and how long the host takes to remediate, which goes some way to explaining why its quicker in our test environment.

It's going to be a long patching weekend

Re-configure VUM to different vCenter?

PAFan23 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:59:10 GMT

Thanks for the information. Unfortuantely, I only had the option to uninstall the Update Manager. Here is the process I have done to complete my request:

Gather DSN information and vCenter IP address to connect too. I have Update Manager installed on a standalone machine, uninstalled Update Manager, re-installed using the same DSN credentials. Configured Update Manager to a different vCenter and all my data was intact.

Can you configure Update Manager not to download updates upon initial installation?

explorer364 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:30:31 GMT

Hello all,

Originally update Manager was installed inside of VC 2.5 and it immediately started downloading updates which caused a very large bandwidth problem at our local office. During which someone tried to stop the VMware Update Manager service and it caused a problem with the Virtual Center Server service which in turn corrupted the VC DB. Needless to say, another instance of VirtualCenter 2.5 will be installed on a fresh box but I need to know if I can schedule the updates to download during non-business hours after the initial install. I wasn't the one who installed VC initially so I'm trying to get all the info up front so that there isn't another bandwidth problem during business hours.

Thanks to all who reply!

Update Manager Latest Build Number ?

AndreTheGiant — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:46:20 GMT

You can find the build in the "File Version" property of vmware-updatemgr.exe file.
Last build seems to be 4.0.0 build-162871

From the client I do not know if there is a way...

Andre

Agent Installation

LEslinger — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:43:08 GMT

As long as you only configure VUM for ESX patching all your guests will not have an agent installed on them.

The real issue comes down to setting up the Baselines and Remediation only for ESX and not for guests.

Read this article onHow to configure VMWare Update Manager to update ESX 3.x hosts

http://networkadminkb.com/kb/Knowledge%20Base/VMWare/How%20to%20configure%20VMWare%20Update%20Manager%20to%20update%20ESX%203.x%20hosts.aspx

Configure update manager repository

LEslinger — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 15:00:32 GMT

Patch repositories do not work that way. Think about what would happen if you built a new ESX host from scratch in 6months to a year. You will miss alot of patches if they were automatically deleted after a period of time. All patch repositories must be complete, otherwise they are not very usefull for most implementations.

However, you can change the path to a drive with more space. Read the whole article here.

http://networkadminkb.com/kb/Knowledge%20Base/VMWare/Changing%20VMWare%20Update%20Manager%20Patch%20Repository.aspx

Currently, the total space needed for just the ESX hosts patches is around 7GB, easily managable with a single Hard Drive. If you also do OS updates then that size may be 2-3 times as large.

Host upgrade Question

Bryon@gbdarchitects.com — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:56:58 GMT

The upgrade task did not fail, well there were no errors reported. The server has been functioning fine and this error seems cosmetic.

I guess I will try to get the beta and give it a go.

Remove Conflicting update from Update Manger...

vertices — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:58:15 GMT

Hmm, mine still show conflicts. Those are not showing as something to install when remediating. I may try anyways to install this other tools patch, then see what happens. Weird.

VUM plugin connecting to wrong IP

mburutzis — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:11:01 GMT

Alright, thanks Andre. I reinstalled Update Manager, without deleting the DB and reinstalled the plugin and it works great..

Woohoo!!! thanks andre and everyone who took the time to anser my question.

Installing VMware Update Manager (vCenter 4) and authentication

AndreTheGiant — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 06:16:33 GMT

It's only for the installation process.
VUM service (as other services) will run with SYSTEM credential.

Andre

VUM can't scan ESX4 hosts :(

CrazyTao — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:45:14 GMT

Update Manager's default port is 9084

The correct url will be "http://10.0.24.250:9084//vci/hostupdates/hostupdate/vmw/metadata/vmw-ESX-4.0.0-metadata.zip "

Update Manager's is default installed at "C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Update Manager"

You can go to this dir ,open the configure file vci-integrity.xml,

Find the lable "<PatchDepotUrl/>"

Change it to "<PatchDepotUrl>http://10.0.24.250:9084//vci/hostupdates/hostupdate</PatchDeporUrl>"

I just doing so,It works fine!

Not able to install VMware Vcenter Update manager 4.0 Plug in

jithinraj — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:47:17 GMT

Hi Petko,

Thanks for the information, will try as per your suggestion.

Regards - Jithin

Remote Update Manager server with different http port

Troy Clavell — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:04:22 GMT

good news!!!

Use Update Manager over a slow WAN Link

ssauer — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:49:13 GMT

Fixed our issue with the posted solution (vSphere 4).

Update Manager and ESX Host "rollback"

millardus — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:56:22 GMT

Thanks for the confirmation guys, patching went ahead nice and smoothly....soo far

No test system, just ESXI version 3 so no advanced features. I'd like to push them for a test environment, I assume this is standard for Companies out there that have fairly large ESX setups? (we have 8 hosts in 2 VCentre managed Clusters, resilient across 2 sites, 48GB RAM per Host etc etc etc)

Error 25085.Setup failed to register VMware vCenter Update Manager extension to VMware vCenter Server

guyrleech — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:56:35 GMT

Thought I'd share this as its taken me a while to figure out why an Update Manager install on top of a working vCenter 4.0 kept failing with the above error. This was on x64 but I suspect it will be the same on x86.

Although you can generate an MSI log from the update manager installer executable (it doesn't like you running the msi directly), this doesn't help as it just gives the error message without any detail or context. The key log file was vminst.log which is found in %TEMP% for the user running the installer. In there it gives the command line given to the vciInstallUtils.exe program (which is run by a custom action) which when run manually shows me that I've been a muppet and given the account that I specified for VC access in the installer the wrong permissions in VC. A quick change of the permissions, rerun the installer and it's working.

It's also interesting because it shows why you need to have no special characters, such as spaces or quote marks, in the password you specify since it is passed unquoted, via the -P option, to the vciInstallUtils.exe program so spaces will be interpreted as a separate command line option.

VMware Update Manager-build-162871: 10/21/09 19:44:55

Begin Logging

VMware Update Manager-build-162871: 10/21/09 19:44:55 --- CA exec: VMRegisterExtension
VMware Update Manager-build-162871: 10/21/09 19:44:55 INFO: Reg/UnReg extn command: "-v 192.168.0.30 -p 80 -U "leech\svc_vmware" -P *** -S "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\Update Manager\extension.xml" -C "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\Update Manager
" -L "C:\DOCUME~1\admingl\LOCALS~1\Temp
" -O extupdate"
VMware Update Manager-build-162871: 10/21/09 19:44:55 AppendPath::done Path: C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\Update Manager\vciInstallUtils.exe
VMware Update Manager-build-162871: 10/21/09 19:44:55 Found "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\Update Manager\vciInstallUtils.exe"
VMware Update Manager-build-162871: 10/21/09 19:45:00 Process returned 199
VMware Update Manager-build-162871: 10/21/09 19:45:00 Error:: Unknown VC error
VMware Update Manager-build-162871: 10/21/09 19:45:00 ERROR: VUM registeration with VC failed
VMware Update Manager-build-162871: 10/21/09 19:45:00 Posting error message 25085

The vciInstallUtils.exe run manually with the command line from the log file gave:

logUtil, 250 Product = VMware UpdateManager, Version = 4.0.0, Build = 162871
VC server URL: http://192.168.0.30:80
~~2009-10-21 20:16:05.931 03892 info 'Extension'~~ Connecting to host 192.168.0.30 on port 80 using protocol http

~~2009-10-21 20:16:05.978 03892 info 'Extension'~~ Authenticating user leech\svc_vmware
~~2009-10-21 20:16:06.009 03892 info 'Extension'~~ Logged in!
MethodFault error: vim.fault.NoPermission
installerRunVCCommand, 381 VCSERVER The extension registration failed
installerRunVCCommand, 384 VCSERVER Register extension failed 1066

I hope this saves someone else the few hours it has taken me to get to the bottom of it.

Guy Leech
VMware vExpert 2009

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Host update times out

slmpptc — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:05:34 GMT

In my case the problem turned out to be caused by a wonky uplink port in a 2 port trunk. Once this was fixed UM started working properly again.

Replace UpdateManager PKI certificate

Rossignol — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:02:28 GMT

Just solved the Problem, but it's more or less only a workaround. To change the Update Manager Certificate up to Version 3.5 you can use the repair Function in the Update Manager MSI Package.

Change the Update Manager Certificates in Update Manager Folder: Default: C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\Update Manager\SSL (all the rui.* files ).

The Certificates have to be the same format like the ones from Virtual Center with testpassword and so on.

Use the Repair Function under Start > Settings > Control Panel > Add Remove Programs.

Click on VMware Update Manager component and click Change.

Follow the wizard and when prompted, choose Repair.

Done...

In Vsphere you have to uninstall the Update Manager...because of missing repair function (Maybe that this is because i use 64 Bit Win 2008) The SSL Folder will be present afterwards...

change the rui.* files

Install Update Manager...

Done

I think it should be possible to update the rui.* files before installing the Update Manager by copying them in place before a fresh installation. Even if i did not try it.

How to retrieve the LoaderExceptions property

773gb3003 — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:00:07 GMT

I'm trying to enable the VMware Converter Enterprise Client in vCenter 2.5 and I'm getting the error message "Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information."

Where do I go to retrieve the LoaderExceptions property?

Thanks.

Update: I fixed the error message by running an install / repair on the Enterprise Client. But I'm still curious about where to locate the LoaderExceptions property.

Thanks.

Waiting for Inventory Collector to Finish ?

TonyJK — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:57:14 GMT

It appears it is a problem related to OpenManage Agent.

Finally, we find that we have to upgrade BIOS to 2.6.1 (PowerEdge 2950 Server) and use OpenManage 6.1 (OpenManage 5.5 doesn't work properly).

Thanks

Update Manager on Windows 2008 R2

komanek — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:39:11 GMT

Hi Petko,

I was using four ESX 4 (vSphere) hosts + 1 vCenter ver. 4 on a physical server (Windows 2003 Server) and Oracle on another physical server. All with latest patches. As was decided in my organiation, I moved the vCenter to a virtual machine. I hope the Windows 2008 R2 operating system will be soon supported and while we are still at the beginning of virtualization, I decided to risk and use this opearing system for the vCenter. So, now I have new vCenter server connected to the Oracle database which was used by the previous installation of vCenter. The only items changed in comparison to prevoius scenario are:

1. vCenter installed on Windows 2008 R2 virtual machine instead of Windows 2003 physical machine

2. new IP and hostname for the vCenter server

3. newer Oracle client software

Everything else remains the same (versions of vSphere components including patches, firewall rules).So I suppose my problem is derived from the vCenter OS change or the IP/hostname change of this transition. Unfortunately the old physical server is still in use for other purposes so I cannot use its network setting. But I think, as everything exept update manager works fine, it is unlikely to be IP/hostname related, but whoknows ....

Update manager behavior:

1. It downloads patches (320MB during few minutes) from internet.

2. scanning esx hosts for updates goes to 50% and then ends up abnormally with a generic error message: "Scan Entity VMware vCenter Update Manager had an unknown failure. Check Tasks and Events tab and logs for more details."

3. scanning virtual machine for updates exhibits the same problem

In tasks end events tab is no more relevant information.

Logs are huge but I was not lucky to find relatedinfo neither in vCenter, Windows nor esx host logs, but it is possible there is something I'm not able to correlate.

Thanks again,

David

UPDATE: I found something related in the logs:

~~2009-10-12 22:53:01:609 'SingleHostScanTask.SingleHostScanTask{69}' 4536 INFO~~ vciTaskBase, 534 Task started...
hostUpdateConfig, 252 Allowing direct access to webserver
hostUpdateConfig, 269 using default for host updates url suffix
hostUpdateConfig, 284 Patch depot url: http://10.20.30.115:9084/vci/hostupdates/hostupdate
~~2009-10-12 22:53:01:796 'SingleHostScanTask.SingleHostScanTask{69}' 4536 ERROR~~ vciTaskBase, 560 Task execution has failed: boost::filesystem::file_size
~~2009-10-12 22:53:01:796 'ChainedTaskContainer.ChainedTaskContainer{67}' 4536 INFO~~ vciTaskBase, 583 A subTask finished: SingleHostScanTask{69}
~~2009-10-12 22:53:01:812 'VciHostScanTask.VciHostScanTask{65}' 4536 INFO~~ vciTaskBase, 583 A subTask finished: ChainedTaskContainer{67}
~~2009-10-12 22:53:01:812 'VciScanTask.ScanTask{64}' 4536 INFO~~ vciTaskBase, 583 A subTask finished: VciHostScanTask{65}

Update manager 4 unable to download patches

mlammerts — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:48:18 GMT

Same issue here, when we change the FQDM from our proxy server to IP in the configuration of the Update Manager everythings works correct.

Update Manager - How to update my View Manager 3 ?

Gwi — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:04:13 GMT

Well ok, that's why I did not see anything else than Esx in my update manager...
I will try to install manualy then...

Thanks!

Jetty version in update manager with vCenter update 5

Jam111 — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:10:24 GMT

Thank you for that.

Update Manager connection account

petkom — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:52:55 GMT

Hi,

It should be VC account with sufficient privileges, but most likely it is - VC administrator account

thanks,

Petko

Remote Update

sflanders — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:58:41 GMT

I believe Update Manager is really the only "nice way". I have done this through a T1 connection so while slow it is possible. I believe the old way does require patches to be specified in the correct order. Unless your hosts at the remote site are really our of date or you have a massive upgrade planned, I believe Update Manager can work.

Can't Remidate Baselines

khughes — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:49:49 GMT

Troy, when I heard SQL 2000 wasn't supported, I was 1/2 happy and 1/2 worried. Happy in the fact that we would have a reason to upgrade and maybe move the SQL database off the physical VC server and create a VM for it which would be better, but also worried because I knew that could totally kill any movement to 4.0 due to funding. Mainly the worried part won through so far because I got the question, well why do we really need to upgrade to vSphere 4? Besides the small, faster, a little more reliable, and new features (which would probably wouldn't use) I didn't have much to offer so we'll see about that. We shall see.

I did have difficulty connecting UM to my remote SQL server in my R/D lab but I'm not sure if that was due to a bad install on my part of SQL / configuration or something to do with SQL 2000 or what. Obviously it works attached to a remote sql server but I broke down and re-installed it using the MSDE version it installs on the local machine for you.

Kyle

Update VUM SSL certificates procedure?

DSeaman — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:58:35 GMT

What is the proper procedure to update the VUM SSL certificates with ones generated by a trusted CA? I know the procedure for vCenter itself, and I've successfully done that. However, just copying the three certificate files into the VUM SSL directory breaks VUM and the VIC throws a login error.

This is for vCenter/VUM 4.0.

Thanks!

Host certificate chain is not complete.

yougotiger0 — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 21:45:27 GMT

Turns out that my problem was DNS. In Update manager under the configuration tab, under Network connectivity and IP address of host name for the patch server, I had the vCenter server entered by name, it wasn't resolving this properly. I selected the IP address of the list and it downloaded correctly. We'll have to correct our DNS server.

Error Connecting to VMWare Vcenter Update Manager

beyondvm — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:30:52 GMT

Do you have vFoglight installed on or attached to that machine as well?

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Can't enable Update Manager

rjsunde — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:06:25 GMT

I had the same issue yesterday. I had a bunch of 3.5-related components installed (e..g. VIC, u4 update manger, etc.) as well as the vSphere equivalents.

I removed all of them - 3.5 and vSphere. Then installed only the vSphere related components. After that, I was able to enable Vmware Update Manager

ymmv

Update Manager permissions

rsmclane — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:46:13 GMT

The baselines I use are modified versions of the built in Host baselines. Best I can tell, they are defined at the Hosts & Clusters level. Update Manager says that the baselines are all attached at the individual hosts.

VUM on vSphere Failed to download updates

anujmodi1 — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 11:40:56 GMT

What is apprx time for this patch....

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vSphere Update Manager -- shared repository -- which API's

lamw — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 04:32:27 GMT

Duplicated thread: vSphere Update Manager -- shared repository -- which API's

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Unable to enable update manager plugin

StefanWd — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:13:44 GMT

Sorry no change.

I forgot to say: on vcenter service state ther is an errror: called up data to the system state are invalid

Have this anything to do with the update manager problem?

internal repository

RobMokkink — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:45:45 GMT

I already have UMDS inplace.

I think i make a support call for updating the vMA offline.

Update manager fails to load

pramodupadhyay5 — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:27:29 GMT

check whether services for virtual cnter and update manager are running or not.....

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Maintenance Mode Timeout with Update manager

NTurnbull — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:11:06 GMT

HI, have you seen Simon Long's blog about vMotion performance http://www.simonlong.co.uk/blog/2009/01/05/vmotion-performance/ you can increase the concurrent vMotion tasks per host which will speed things up - might even sort your timeout error

Thanks,
Neil

ISCSI and SAN FC in VI 3.5

malaysiavm — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 06:47:02 GMT

I think to summarize the thing here, it meant you shouldn't provision a lun and presented through FC or ISCSI or NAS at the same time. Meant if LUN A is for FC, just present it through FC. If LUN2 is for ISCSI, just present it as ISCSI. If you have a LUN presented through ISCSI and FC at 1 time, then you will have the problem it stated there.

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SSL Certificate Warning from UM plugin

skearney — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:52:23 GMT

I have replaced my default VC certificates with my own internal CA signed certs. I now no longer receiver a certificate warning in VC starts. However, now I am getting a certificate warning when the VUM plug-in is enabled. The message is:

The certficate received from "IP.xx.xx.xx" was issued for "FQDN". Secure communication with "IP.xx.xx.xx" cannot be guaranteed. Ensure that the fully-qualified domain name on the certificate matches the address of the server you are trying to connect to.

It would appear that I am being served the correct certificate; however the server is presenting itself as its IP address rather than its FQDN.

Has anyone come across this before?

Upgrading ESX update 2 to update 3 using update manager

TobiasKracht — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:16:13 GMT

http://communities.vmware.com/docs/DOC-2505;jsessionid=2BEC660D4B44F69608AD038C3DF666BA Check this out

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Can't see KB 1013026 in Update Manager

goyer — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:05:50 GMT

The number show on the server console is good 181792 but the vcenter show the 175625 number.I think it's a vcenter bug.

Vmware Update Mangager Question

fish6288 — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:26:28 GMT

the restart of the Virtual Center service and Update manager service seem to do the job...thanks

Update Manager doesn't update

Myersc — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:03:51 GMT

Trying to pinpoint your problem first......

Is the problem the repository not being updated or something else.......Tail the /var/log/vmware/esxupdate.log file on an ESX Host. Then from VCenter kick of a scan of that host and let us know if there are any errors shown in the esxupdate.log.

VMware Update Manager for vSphere

vmwarelima — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:27:47 GMT

I have installed vSphere into my environment and set up three vSphere Hosts in a cluster. I have an isolated network which I am trying to patch. Here comes the problem.

I have installed the UDMS service on a machine with internet access. Using the command vmware-UDMS -D have downloaded all patches for ESX to the folder C:\Program Files\VMware\Update Manager\HostUpdate.

I have then run the command vmware-UDMS -E this exported the patches to C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Update Manager.

I have copied this Hostupdate folder with all the patches on an external device and copied it to a partition on my vCenter Server.

I then load up Update Manager to configure the repositry. I have put in the path E:\Hostupdate\ tried to validate url. It says not connected. I then apply without validating and try to download and it says check repositry path and repositry version. I am completely bamboozled.

Help

Thanx

Cannot install VMware vCenter Update Manager guest agent

WilliamEnright — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:21:11 GMT

After a failed remediation, I can no longer scan or remediate one VM. I've tried removing and reinstalling VMware Tools, Update manager agent - nothing seems to work.

Here's an piece of the Update Manager log:

vixWrap, 767 vm-1387: Reading guest registry key
vixWrap, 767 vm-1387: Reading guest registry key
vixWrap, 814 vm-1387: RunProgram(C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe, /C md "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware")
vixWrap, 850 RunProgram(C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe, ...) = 1
vixWrap, 814 vm-1387: RunProgram(C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe, /C md "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Update Manager Guest Agent")
JobDispatcher, 324 The number of tasks: 4
vixWrap, 850 RunProgram(C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe, ...) = 1
vixWrap, 814 vm-1387: RunProgram(C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe, /C md "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Update Manager Guest Agent\key")
vixWrap, 850 RunProgram(C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe, ...) = 1
vixWrap, 814 vm-1387: RunProgram(C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe, /C "echo y|cacls.exe "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Update Manager Guest Agent\key" /G "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:F" "BUILTIN\Administrators:F"")
vixWrap, 850 RunProgram(C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe, ...) = 0
vixWrap, 719 vm-1387: SendFile(local = ga-key-vm-1387, remote = C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Update Manager Guest Agent\key\vciga-key.txt)
~~2009-09-24 07:41:24:743 'GAUpgrader.GAUpgrader{139}' 928 INFO~~ gaUpgrader, 288 Last restart failed, uninstalling GA
~~2009-09-24 07:41:24:743 'GAUpgrader.GAUpgrader{139}' 928 INFO~~ gaUpgrader, 565] GAUpgrader { vm: vm-1387, jobId:1253795827734928o#)K3'ZNz!$0/!b} Stopping GA
vixWrap, 767 vm-1387: Reading guest registry key
vixWrap, 814 vm-1387: RunProgram(C:\Windows\system32\net.exe, stop vci-ga)
vixWrap, 850 RunProgram(C:\Windows\system32\net.exe, ...) = 2
~~2009-09-24 07:41:26:009 'GAUpgrader.GAUpgrader{139}' 928 INFO~~ gaUpgrader, 608] GAUpgrader { vm: vm-1387, jobId:1253795827734928o#)K3'ZNz!$0/!b} Uninstalling GA
vixWrap, 767 vm-1387: Reading guest registry key
vixWrap, 767 vm-1387: Reading guest registry key
vixWrap, 814 vm-1387: RunProgram(C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe, /C md "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware")
vixWrap, 850 RunProgram(C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe, ...) = 1
vixWrap, 814 vm-1387: RunProgram(C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe, /C md "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Update Manager Guest Agent")
vixWrap, 850 RunProgram(C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe, ...) = 1
vixWrap, 814 vm-1387: RunProgram(C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe, /C md "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Update Manager Guest Agent\key")
vixWrap, 850 RunProgram(C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe, ...) = 1
vixWrap, 814 vm-1387: RunProgram(C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe, /C "echo y|cacls.exe "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Update Manager Guest Agent\key" /G "NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM:F" "BUILTIN\Administrators:F"")
vixWrap, 850 RunProgram(C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe, ...) = 0
vixWrap, 767 vm-1387: Reading guest registry key
vixWrap, 786 Foundry async operation error 4: A file was not found; embedded error = 278697028308056556; while reading guest registry
~~2009-09-24 07:41:30:353 'GAUpgrader.GAUpgrader{139}' 928 ERROR~~ gaUpgrader, 781] GAUpgrader { vm: vm-1387, jobId:1253795827734928o#)K3'ZNz!$0/!b} exception message: Foundry async operation error 4: A file was not found; embedded error = 278697028308056556; while reading guest registry
vimGuestInfoChannel, 299 Cancelling receive for VMvm-1387

Anyone have any ideas?

VUM Install failed

PW07 — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:55:03 GMT

I have the same issue Windows 2008 x64

Update Manager not compatible with SQL 2008 Standard edition?

JasonRaymore — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:40:54 GMT

Great! Thanks for pointing me to that KB article!

Update Manager and Windows 2008 64-bit

htwnrver — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 01:55:59 GMT

My vcenter 4 server is running on Windows 2008 std x64 including update manager and we have not had a problem. Patching both 3.5 and vSphere hosts. I don't patch VMs so I have not tested that.

Remediation of SQL SP's are failing

CsNoc — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:42:53 GMT

I was using a dynamic patch baseline, so I created a new fixed patch baseline for just the SP3 for SQL standard and told vCenter to remediate this one guest.
I took a while, but eventually it failed as well. The compliance status afterwards is still non-compliant.

SQL has been installed with almost all default settings, except for the Data files and it has a Service account so it can run in its own security profile (and not as the SYSTEM / NETWORK SERVICE account)

vmware update manager plugin comes back with "the remote server returned an error: (404) not found"

krowczynski — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:30:40 GMT

You're welcome!!

Cannot scan Linux VMs with VUM

AndreTheGiant — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 10:07:18 GMT

Is your distro supported by VUM?

Have you tried to check download configuration to see if it is configured the linux download patches (and the connectivity status say connect)?

Andre

Virtual Machine Hardware Update Issue

Troy Clavell — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:03:39 GMT

bweatherl wrote: Can you upgrade the hardware on a VM if you are logged directly into the ESX host? (I checked, but didn't see it anywhere)

yes, see my earlier post. The VM must be powered off. Then right click on it and 'upgrade virtual hardware'

If I turn off the SQL server (that hosts the vCenter DB) then I can't log into vCenter to tell the VM to update it's hardware.

you will have to shutdown your vCenter Server Service, then power down your SQL VM by logging directly into the ESX Host in which it's registered on.

Update Manager 4 Keeps Dissapearing

jhetrick — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:50:53 GMT

Was the original poster able to solve this using this approach? I have not been able to.

I've got UM installed (and have re-installed it, as well as vSphere Client, and UM Client) to no avail.

Restarting UM service after closing vSphere has not helped. Is there a log that'll filled with meaningful errors somewhere?

I note I get "Detecting VUM Agent.." and watch it go to 48% and then sit there for a while, ultimately finishing without error...but UM Tab never appears, nor does it show up in Management section of vSphere client.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Joe

Update Manager Server

petkom — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 06:32:44 GMT

Hi MNANCE152,

VUM works only with the VC specified during the installation. You cannot change the VC later

thanks,

Petko

Update Manager 4.0 PowerShell Library not available

harkamal — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:50:47 GMT

You can use the following APIs.

<code>

$h = Get-VMHost <myHost> | Get-View

$h.ConfigManager.PatchManager

$h | Get-Member

<code>

Update Manager supports Oracle 11g Release 1 (11.1.0.7.0)

t-miyashita — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 05:15:45 GMT

Sorry,
VUM version is 4.0.0.3194.

Regards,

use update manager shared repository fails

ehinkle — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:45:43 GMT

Thanks i just discovered that after checking the update manager logs that it was looking for a version.txt file.

VUM on the same VM as vCenter

Gmurisonapd — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:45:01 GMT

I thought I would pipe in, I have a pretty small deployment (2 esx hosts, 40 VM's). My VC/VUM server is also in a VM.
My esx hosts are in a DRS/HA cluster which I have in fully automated mode, so when one esx goes into maintenance
mode, vMotion moves the VM's (Including my VC/VUM server) over to the other server.

You may want to cehck this doc out: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_vc_in_vm.pdf

Staging of Patches Fails - Operation Timed Out

petkom — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 09:24:12 GMT

Hi,

try to change the timeout value in vci-integrity.xml file.There is also another link about this topic here.

thanks,

Petko

UM: Install Update timed out - how to monitor update process?

petkom — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:23:04 GMT

here you can find some useful info for remediation accross FMZ - http://communities.vmware.com/thread/225931?tstart=0

try to increase the timeout value and

if your host has a DRAC or iLo card you can monitor vmkernel log for errors by hitting Alt+F12

thanks,

Petko

Installing Update 4 for ESX 3.5 using Update manager

techpaul — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:14:52 GMT

This issue was fixed by renaming the hostupdate\esx\esx3.5.0 directory located on the Virtual centre server to old . By doing this the updates are then pulled sonw again. I am guessing there was some corruption with the original Update 4 downloaded.

Weird Errors in update manager log files and behaviour

KevinR999 — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:15:02 GMT

Hi all,

I have a couple of strange issues on update manager.

1st one : I keep seeing

In the vmware-vum-server-log4cpp.log

JobDispatcher, 324 The number of tasks: 1
InventoryMonitor, 399 ProcessUpdate, Enter, Update version := 25
InventoryMonitor, 432 ProcessUpdate: object = vm-60; type: vim.VirtualMachine; kind: 0
InventoryMonitor, 1047 Still on queue: group-n27016.... Number of retries: 21
InventoryMonitor, 1047 Still on queue: group-s27014.... Number of retries: 21
JobDispatcher, 324 The number of tasks: 1
JobDispatcher, 324 The number of tasks: 1
JobDispatcher, 324 The number of tasks: 1
JobDispatcher, 324 The number of tasks: 1
JobDispatcher, 324 The number of tasks: 1
JobDispatcher, 324 The number of tasks: 1
JobDispatcher, 324 The number of tasks: 1
JobDispatcher, 324 The number of tasks: 1
JobDispatcher, 324 The number of tasks: 1
InventoryMonitor, 399 ProcessUpdate, Enter, Update version := 26
InventoryMonitor, 432 ProcessUpdate: object = vm-1350; type: vim.VirtualMachine; kind: 0
InventoryMonitor, 1047 Still on queue: group-n27016.... Number of retries: 22
InventoryMonitor, 1047 Still on queue: group-s27014.... Number of retries: 22
InventoryMonitor, 399 ProcessUpdate, Enter, Update version := 27
InventoryMonitor, 432 ProcessUpdate: object = vm-644; type: vim.VirtualMachine; kind: 0
InventoryMonitor, 1047 Still on queue: group-n27016.... Number of retries: 23
InventoryMonitor, 1047 Still on queue: group-s27014.... Number of retries: 23
internalScheduledTasksMgr, 196 Internal Scheduled Tasks Manager Timer callback...
internalScheduledTasksMgr, 678 InvokeCallbacks. Total number of callbacks: 7
internalScheduledTasksMgr, 745 Patch store disk free space is: 41793191936
internalScheduledTasksMgr, 787 Temp directory disk free space is: 6886457344
healthServiceMgr, 316 VMware Remote Device Server is green
healthServiceMgr, 316 VMware Update Manager Web Server is green
internalScheduledTasksMgr, 305 Internal Scheduled Tasks Manager Timer callback end of this timer slice.....Rescheduling after 300000000 microseconds
JobDispatcher, 324 The number of tasks: 1
InventoryMonitor, 399 ProcessUpdate, Enter, Update version := 28
InventoryMonitor, 432 ProcessUpdate: object = vm-196; type: vim.VirtualMachine; kind: 0
InventoryMonitor, 1047 Still on queue: group-n27016.... Number of retries: 24
InventoryMonitor, 1047 Still on queue: group-s27014.... Number of retries: 24
InventoryMonitor, 399 ProcessUpdate, Enter, Update version := 29
InventoryMonitor, 432 ProcessUpdate: object = vm-1173; type: vim.VirtualMachine; kind: 0
InventoryMonitor, 1047 Still on queue: group-n27016.... Number of retries: 25
InventoryMonitor, 1047 Still on queue: group-s27014.... Number of retries: 25
JobDispatcher, 324 The number of tasks: 1
JobDispatcher, 324 The number of tasks: 1
JobDispatcher, 324 The number of tasks: 1
JobDispatcher, 324 The number of tasks: 1
JobDispatcher, 324 The number of tasks: 1
JobDispatcher, 324 The number of tasks: 1
JobDispatcher, 324 The number of tasks: 1

WARNs in the logs, the download patch definitions bar has been sat at 60% for some time, could this be due to the speed of the downloads being slow, or is this an issue in talking to the update manager server.

2nd Issue :

On an upgraded vmware 3.5 install upgraded to VMware vSphere when update manager trys to download patches it sits at 33% permanently, now I have seen this before where there was a firewall in the way but on this case the firewall for this server has been set at ANY/ANY to remove it from the equation and it is still sitting at 33%, If i try to patch the ESX server up, it puts it into maintenance mode and then sits at 33% for now going on 4 hours.

Any help on this one greatfully received !http://communities.vmware.com/message/1357787/!!

Kind Regards

Kevin.

Update Manager on ESX 3.x

petkom — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 13:12:25 GMT

Hi Daniel,

when you move to vSphere you'll be able to upgrade your VC and 3.0.2 hosts to 4.0 with VUM. The first VUM version that supports VM tools and hw upgrade is the vSphere one - 4.0

my 2 cents

/petko

Deploying custom patches and scripts through VMware Update Manager

harkamal — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:08:40 GMT

It is possible to import custom patches or delta patches only if those have been provided to you by vmware with an update_metadata.xml file.

The xml file is key to patch import. Once you have that,you can run update manager update import util to import it

Update Manager ESX Patching Procedure

jbogardus — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:56:05 GMT

DRS will always maintain management of the admission control, even when the process is initiated by Update Manager, so that it will ensure hosts don't become overloaded. In the case of VI3 with the calculation of slots and the single method of admission control selected it is actually overly conservative and halt the DRS process well before is necessary. If this takes place the automatic implementation of maintenance mode will not complete until manually vMotion the rest of the VMs after manually verifying that it is being overly conservative and there is actually plenty of remaining capacity to be able to take the host into maintenance mode. If going into maintenance mode actually does complete fully automatically then it indicates you have much more spare resource capacity that is necessary to complete the update process. vSphere HA has the other percentage and standby host admission control options that are more precise with how spare resource capacity is calculated and can help the automated entry into maintenance mode complete with tighter resource constraints.

How do I create a baseline for Windows guests in Virtual Center 2.5?

bulletprooffool — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:27:38 GMT

Update Manager -> Right click open area under baslines and sleect 'new baseline' -> then Virtual Machine / Guest OS updates

Could not stage patches using update manager on ESXi 3.5.0

petkom — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 07:51:50 GMT

Hi,

VUM does not support staging on 3.5 hosts. You can stage only on 4.0. See VUM Admin guide.

thanks,

hph

thanks,

Petko

Change update manager upload target

petkom — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:39:32 GMT

Hi,

if you start new upgrade remediation you definitely should have an option to select storage for upgrade. It could be ESX local or network(SAN) datastore that the ESX console will be put.

It is not necessary to delete the baseline, but if you did this you can create a new baseline - no need to upload a new .iso file you can just select it from the dropdown list of the New Baseline Wizard. When you delete the baseline its iso file is not deleted - it stays by default in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware Update Manager\Data and can be selected when you create another baseline.

regards,

Petko

System Requirements for VUM Server

LabAdminVM — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:30:05 GMT

The compatibility matrix, VUM Best Practices Guide, and the VUM Sizing Estimator will get me off to a good start.

Thanks

Scheduling Remediation?

bulletprooffool — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 14:30:46 GMT

VUM will make sure that enough hosts remain running to host all VMs in the cluster and still accomodate all of your HA / DRS and resource requirements.

VUM 4.0: Staging keeps hanging on 33% (copy action towards ESX doesn't work)

Vliegenmepper — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 11:59:17 GMT

Created a blog about this: http://kennethvanditmarsch.wordpress.com/2009/08/27/vmware-update-manager-on-vsphere-check-the-firewall/

Download Selected Patches with Update Signature Task

Amnexi — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:57:38 GMT

rohansharma, with "Is there anyway I can download selected patches " do you mean to download them from the internet, or to export them anywhere else?

You said that the command indicated by jitendrakmr works, but after some tests, I think that -s and -e arguments are ignored when used with -D (*download*) argument

-e and -s works with the -E (*export*) argument..., but after you downloaded everything again. In fact, I'm not sure how those dates work: I tried to export to another folder patches of ONLY one month (April 2008 I think), and I redownloaded 4 of 7 GB of ESX updates (???)

Regards

Update Manager installation error

jshiplett — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:42:22 GMT

Same problem and resolution.

Thanks!

Error uploading CD

rcbrantley — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:34:11 GMT

For the sake of any others who run across this. After speaking with VMWare support it appears that vCenter Update Manager will not upload anything older than a 4.0 iso. Hopefully they will add some sort of dialoge box so people do not waste time troubleshooting or waiting on hold, or both.