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Question on Dell's Customized esxi 5 install image.

macpiano — Wed, 09 May 2012 02:43:25 GMT

I have installed Dell's Customized ESXi 5 image. It is titled VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.0.0-504890.x86_64-Dell_Customized_RecoveryCD_A03.iso

Even though it says Recovery I have been assured and I have used it to install 5 ESXi servers from scratch. I keep seeing ESXi update 1 and is this image Update 1 or do I need to apply that update?

My other question is why is it so hard to find these downloads such as Update etc.

I am confused on what I should be using.

thanks

Re: Question on Dell's Customized esxi 5 install image.

Cyberfed27 — Thu, 10 May 2012 19:02:50 GMT

VMware Update Manager is the most simple way to apply patches to your ESXi hosts.

I highly recommend.

Re: Question on Dell's Customized esxi 5 install image.

admin — Fri, 11 May 2012 01:29:43 GMT

Hi macpiano

Please dont loos tempo yar need lot of confidence to overcome the problems.

Turn on auto updation and manuall installtion is the best way .

"Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoe."

Re: Question on Dell's Customized esxi 5 install image.

macpiano — Fri, 11 May 2012 01:35:25 GMT

I did use update manager and that was the only way to go. I found out there were 3 updates to my build that had to be applied in the correct order. I already had VCenter to auto download patches etc. I did the staging first so I could see what was going to be installed then remediate and all went well on 2 installs. A lot better than Windows Update server. lol