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Re: ESX 3.5U2 Patch experiences?

90. Aug 13, 2008 8:21 AM in response to: RobertGreenlee
Click to view Kallex's profile Enthusiast 77 posts since
Jan 10, 2007

Ok, found the issue myself as well... turned my memory wasn't that bad this time: http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2008/07/28/esx-35-u2-and-ha-error/

Br,

Kalle

Re: ESX 3.5U2 Patch experiences?

91. Aug 13, 2008 8:23 AM in response to: RobertGreenlee
Click to view Dollar's profile Enthusiast 44 posts since
Apr 9, 2008
You'll need to get more specifics on the error by looking in the "Tasks and Events" tab. If the error is something to the related to the server name (or service console) not matching the IP Address in DNS (on any interface.. or something like that), even though they do, I have seen this as well (on two occasions)immediately following the intial reboot from an installation of U2. A subsequent reboot of the host resolved it.

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92. Aug 13, 2008 8:33 AM in response to: RParker
Click to view oturn's profile Novice 15 posts since
Mar 9, 2006

Ok, I'm getting mixed messages here...

I see the crazy runarounds that folks are using to get this patch installed, but.....

Can we SCP and unzip the patch on our ESX hosts, then run esxupdate update -- WITHOUT the host entering maintenance mode, and WITHOUT affecting the running guests on the host being patched?

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93. Aug 13, 2008 8:35 AM in response to: Dollar
Click to view RobertGreenlee's profile Novice 14 posts since
Jan 15, 2008
I guess thats part of the problem.. I'm not getting any errors under Tasks and Events. I do not however have HA enabled at the moment. I'll turn it back on very soon afterI finish patching my last U2 host.

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94. Aug 13, 2008 8:36 AM in response to: JohnTroyer
Click to view RParker's profile Champion 5,270 posts since
Dec 6, 2006

Looks Good! Nice Work VM Ware. It was rough 24 hours, but it appears everything is working well. I don't hold any grudges.. This was an excellent response.

Thanks!

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95. Aug 13, 2008 8:47 AM in response to: RobertGreenlee
Click to view RobertGreenlee's profile Novice 14 posts since
Jan 15, 2008

Well the HA error went away when I reenabled HA. I'll keep an eye on it. Beyond that I now have 3 of 5 ESX hosts on U2 with the patch. My boss wants me to wait until at least Friday before upgrading the remaining 2 hosts just to let this new patch bake a little bit.

Thanks

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96. Aug 13, 2008 8:51 AM in response to: RParker
Click to view vmproteau's profile Hot Shot 217 posts since
Aug 12, 2006

Update Manager question:

Is there a way to clear out patches and redownload. I still show instances of the the old 7/25 release patches in my baselines. I thought the next scheduled update would remove those but, they remain (see attached image)


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97. Aug 13, 2008 9:03 AM in response to: smithers0105
Click to view Nick_F's profile Enthusiast 57 posts since
Mar 11, 2008
Did the people that have updated via Update Manager just add the patch "Fix the time-bomb issues for U2" to a new baseline (on it's own) and remediate against that? Just wondering if I need to do anything else (only my second time using UM, the first time applied U2 and broke everything :p ).

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98. Aug 13, 2008 9:05 AM in response to: vmproteau
Click to view RobertGreenlee's profile Novice 14 posts since
Jan 15, 2008
I hate to go dlightly off topic with this next question but since it relates to Update 2 I'll go for it. We use HP BL 465c's and 685c's for our environment. I love the new hardware health monitoring as it will give us a way to send out alerts if we have hardware failures on the hosts. Unfortunately even through all of the components show up Normal the server itself is in Yellow state. I already have a case open on this but I'm curious if anybody else is seeing this.
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99. Aug 13, 2008 9:10 AM in response to: JohnTroyer
Click to view Troy Clavell's profile Guru 6,238 posts since
Oct 12, 2007
I have an 8 Node Cluster with 250 VM's, after the patch all powered on successfully and vmotion is now working again. I have set DRS to it's most aggressive state to test automation. So far so good

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100. Aug 13, 2008 9:27 AM in response to: JohnTroyer
Click to view captab's profile Novice 11 posts since
Jun 7, 2007
I think your kb server is down. I was able to download the express patch but have been trying to get article KB1006721 and keep geeting "Page Load Error - Address Not Found." I've tried going through KB Home but it hangs and won't let me go any farther. I'm sure it's probably getting hammered right now. Before I install the patch, I'd like to know about any gotchas.

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102. Aug 13, 2008 9:47 AM in response to: JohnTroyer
Click to view captab's profile Novice 11 posts since
Jun 7, 2007

Still no luck. Same error with the old links and the one you provided. Could be on my side, bur kb home doesn't work either, everything else does though.

Thanks

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103. Aug 13, 2008 10:08 AM in response to: AndyMcM
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Jun 30, 2008
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104. Aug 13, 2008 9:51 AM in response to: JohnTroyer
Click to view Froste's profile Novice 18 posts since
Sep 26, 2007
Updated all of our 24 servers using 3.5.0u2 patch using the Update manger. We weren't able to use a swing machine so we had to pick a handful of machines that we could do without for ~5 minutes. After the first machine was patched we did rolling upgrades and everything has been working smoothly since then. We're using IBM DS8100 SAN storage and IBM HS21 Blades for hosts.

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