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Configure update manager repository posted: Sep 24, 2009 6:22 AM

Click to view hurdle's profile Enthusiast 40 posts since
Jan 17, 2008

Good morning. Is there a way to configure the update repository so that patches only stay for so long?

Overtime all the patches are taking up quit a lot of space and many of the patches have already been installed and no longer needed.

Thanks

Re: Configure update manager repository

1. Sep 27, 2009 5:41 PM in response to: hurdle
Click to view sflanders's profile Hot Shot 133 posts since
Jan 7, 2009
Not really. You can configure the baselines, but removing baselines does not remove the patches. Update Manager by default requests 16GB of storage for this reason. As you adjust baselines you can delete patches or the patch repository to keep down the size.

Re: Configure update manager repository

2. Sep 27, 2009 9:53 PM in response to: hurdle
Click to view AndreTheGiant's profile Guru 5,984 posts since
Aug 28, 2008
Is not possible.
You can only configure what patch family you want download: ESX3, ESX4 (in vSphere), Linux, Windows.

Andre

Re: Configure update manager repository

3. Sep 27, 2009 10:00 PM in response to: hurdle
Click to view pramodupadhyay5's profile Hot Shot 121 posts since
May 5, 2009

But u can change the path

By default the VMWare Update Manager Patch Repository is stored in

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMWare\VMWare Update Manager\Data

This location can be changed during the installation of VMWare Update Manager.

Solution:

1){font:'Times New Roman'} Stop the VMWare Update Manager Service

{font:Times New Roman}2){font:'Times New Roman'} Update the XML file C:\Program Files\VMWare\Infrastructure\Update Manager\vci-integrity.xml to point to a new location.

{font:Times New Roman}a.{font:'Times New Roman'} Update the following entries in the XML file.

{font:'Times New Roman'} i.{font:'Times New Roman'} {font:Times New Roman}Under <docRootHostUpdates> change the <path> setting to point to the new location

ii.{font:'Times New Roman'} {font:Times New Roman}Change the <patchstore> setting to point to the new location

bq. bq. http://networkadminkb.com/shared%20documents/images/kb/0094-01.gif


3){font:'Times New Roman'} Move all the existing patches to this new location

{font:Times New Roman}4){font:'Times New Roman'} Start the VMware Update Manager Service{font}


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Re: Configure update manager repository

4. Oct 31, 2009 8:00 AM in response to: hurdle
Click to view LEslinger's profile Enthusiast 29 posts since
Oct 30, 2009

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.

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