RE: Setting up Vmware Update Manager Download Service for Isolated Networks

vmugu — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:52:46 GMT

Great article!

A permanent way to download patches for hosts only it to modify
C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Update Manager\downloadConfig.xml:

<contentSettings>
<hostUpdateEnabled>true</hostUpdateEnabled>
<unixUpdateEnabled>false</unixUpdateEnabled>
<windowsUpdateEnabled>false</windowsUpdateEnabled>
</contentSettings>

RE: Setting up Vmware Update Manager Download Service for Isolated Networks

hollandwl — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 10:25:24 GMT

UMDS needs a major overhaul to:

1. Let the customer choose which versions to download patches for. I don't have, never have had, and never will have ESX 3.0, so why should I download those patches? There should be a config file setting to set the versions you want something akin to: Vesions=35,40

2. Rather than downloading everything or specifying a date range to re-download:

Download a listing of available patches for the versions I have specified
Compare that listing to what is in my local repository
Download only the differences

3. Provide a way to cleanup a repository to remove patches that are no longer needed.

It cannot be good for VMware to have everyone repeatedly downloading multiple gigabytes of patches from them all the time.

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