Patching HP Proliant servers

[velcod]

I have HP Proliant DL380 Gen9 hosts with HP custom imaged installed (VMware ESXi, 6.7.0, 15160138).  I want to patch with this build 16075168.  Do i need to grab another custom hp image or can i just patch with ESXI patches from vmware?  Here is the build table.

ESXi 6.7 P02	ESXi670-202004002	04/28/2020	16075168	N/A
ESXi 6.7 EP 14	ESXi670-202004001	04/07/2020	15820472	N/A
ESXi 6.7 P01	ESXi670-201912001	12/05/2019	15160138

[a_p_]

From what I've read, HPE supports VMware patches within the same Update release, so since you are already on v6.7 Update 3 installing the patches should work fine.

Anyway, what's the reason why you don't want to update the hosts to the current build number (16713306), for which HPE provides a customized image at https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/downloads/details?downloadGroup=OEM-ESXI67U3-HPE&productId=742​?

André

[velcod]

Thanks for the input.  The version i want to go to fixes an issue im dealing with on one of the hosts.  I dont want to go to the latest version because i have 3 weeks left in the semester and dont want to introduce any new possible problems to the situation.