ESX 4.1 Update Manager

[antterra]

Hi, I had an answer yesterday, but looking at things, it was not what I needed to know, I have vsphere 4.1 and vcenter 4.1 running on esx 4, now my problem is update manager is not showing as a plugin, and reading thru documentation, it states, install Vcenter, well thats already been done, is there a way of checking why I cant see this plugin, or is there a configuration option on the console to complete, my guess is it was not installed with vcenter, but I may be wrong, as you can guess, newbie to vmware

I have double checked on my other vm environment, both vcenter and vsphere are the same, both configured exactly the same on both vm farms, but this one does not want to play ball, Any help, really appreciated, as I seem to be going around in circles.

[memaad]

Hi,

Have you installed Update Manager if not, you have to install it.  refer this doc http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsp_vum_41_admin_guide.pdf

Regards

Mohammed

[antterra]

Thanks for that, I looked at the my vmware site and could not seem to find the download, even though I am licensed thru my company.

[aravinds3107]

Thanks for that, I looked at the my vmware site and could not seem to  find the download, even though I am licensed thru my company.

Update Manage installation files comes along with vCente ISO installtion file

[antterra]

thanks for that, one last question, what and if any risk does installation have to the vcenter vm farm that is live

[aravinds3107]

There wont be any issue doing it online, In fact during update manage install vCenter service has to be running as  you need to provide the vCenter details. Make sure you have created the database and created a ODBC connection for the update manager

Check Installing vCenter Update Manager 4.x best practices

Also read the Update Manager guide ( http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsp_vum_41_admin_guide.pdf)