ESXi Image Updates

[seanmdonnelly]

I am new to VMware and just received the notification today from my vCenter server on this update for my 3 ESXi hosts. I've been looking for documenation to outline what's included in the patch, any ideas on where to locate?

Next I plan on doing after hours, but when applying these patches are reboots required for my hosts?

The number of patch definitions downloaded (critical/total):

ESX: 0/1

ID: ESXi510-201303401-BG  Impact: Important  Release date: 2013-03-07  Products: embeddedEsx 5.1.0 Updates esx-base

[a_p_]

Welcome to the Community,

you can find an overview of released patches with links to the Knowledge Base after selecting the appropriate ESX(i) version at Download Patches

The current patch requires a reboot.

André

PS: Sorry, forgot to attach the direct link to the pach description: http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2043968

[jdptechnc · Accepted solution]

When you scan your host for update compliance (on the update manager tab in the vcenter client), once it comes back and reports that your hosts are non-compliant, you can view the details of the patch(es) that are missing from the host.  There you can view whether or not a reboot is required.

[seanmdonnelly]

Thank you very much for this! Much appreciated.

[seanmdonnelly]

Tried to mark both answers as correct, but I guess that is not possible in these forums?