ESX Updates

[zulu5]

Ladies & Gents,

According to the update manager our ESX 4.0 servers need many patches. Security/Critical/None-critical and so on. All of them are pretty much concentrated within the following 7 major updates:

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Release Date: July 09, 2009

ESX400-200906001.zip

Release Date: August 07, 2009

ESX400-200907001.zip

Release Date: September 24, 2009

ESX400-200909001.zip

Release Date: December 09, 2009

ESX-4.0.0-update01a.zip

Release Date: January 5, 2010

ESX400-200912001.zip

Release Date: March 3, 2010

ESX400-201002001.zip

Release Date: April 1, 2010

ESX400-201003001.zip

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The thing is, when I installed ESX, I applied the ESX400-200909001.zip which was the most recent at the time. In my Microsoft mind the most recent major update (SP) superseeds all that came before it. However, the VMWare update manager still comes up with a none-compliance report and that we need the ESX400-200906001.zip and the ESX400-200907001.zip which have been release before. I'm a bit confused here and my question is whether I have to apply every one of them rather than just the most recent one. Bear in mind, each one of them is about half a gig in size and requires full down time. Any suggestions would be greatly appriciated.

Regards

Igs

[HannaL]

Right idea but.. The individual patches that you select are just that, individual patches. Only Upgrade bundles are the whole rollup of all previous patches.

So UM is telling you the right thing that you are still missing all those other patches. The way you can tell is by looking at the release notes or the patch page which lists every patch in order from most recent down and you can read the kb's and matching build versions to see what is what. But instead of having to manage it manually just let Update Manager do it for you and yes it is telling you the right thing. It will require multiple reboots but you should be able to stage the patches and get them downloaded ahead of time..

https://www.vmware.com/mysupport/download/

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vsp_vum_40u1_admin_guide.pdf

Hope that helps

Hanna