Patches for spectre

[jprovine7]

Has anyone applied the recent release patches for spectre, I wanted to make sure there are no issues before I apply them to my esxi hosts

Patches - release date 3/20/2018

EXXi550-201803401-BG    https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/52449

EXXi550-201803402-BG   https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/52450

[silus]

I am surprised update manager will push out these patches if vCenter has not been updated to be compatible. If you push out these patches without updating vcenter, it will break any EVC enabled clusters, as I understand it.

I would have thought vmware would disallow unpatched vcenters/update managers to push these out, I can see a lot of people just including them in a monthly/quarterly baseline without having updated vcenter.

[bf1967]

I have installed this on 3 ESXi 5.5 and 3 ESXi 6.0 hosts. No issues so far.

If you do the BIOS Update that includes the recent microcode update of the processore of the server vendor (in my case HP with DL380 Gen 8 and Gen 10) you do some kind of double installation.

As far as I can overview it the latest VMWare update does not contain much more than the processor microcode update. So if you have been up to date before the BIOS update of the server should be enough. However in case of the VMWare update you need to do the update to see what actually has been changed.

I updated from the commandline with the zip file.

[Ravinred]

We installed SM patches on my environment as of now we don't see any issues.

I updated using vmware update manger (VUM).