Need advice on updating from esxi 5 to update 1

[ingram87]

I'm new to esxi and am looking for advice. I have 2 esxi 5 servers and the vCenter virtual appliance. I would like to update these systems to update 1 (when I say these systems, I'm referring to both esxi servers and the vCenter server). I don't have the vShpere Update Manager, but I would like to use it if possible. From what I read, it should come with vCenter, but I dont' have it somehow. Does anybody know how I can get it, and would I have to setup a seperate virtual or physical server for it?

Also, if I wanted to update the servers manually, I'm assuming I just download the updates and run them on the servers. Is the update process the same for the vCenter virtual appliance? Do I use the same update file that I would use on the esxi servers for the vCenter server?

vCenter 5.0.0 Build 455964

esxi 5.0.0 469512

[SantoshKumar36]

You can do it with Update manager, By default update manager will not be enabled. In order to that.

You have to first install the update manager in the vCenter server itself, the setup.exe will be available in vCenter package itself. Upon installation, connect to vCenter -> go to Manage Plugin tab -> update manager will be displayed -> right click on it and say enable.

Select the ESXi host -> then the update manager tab will be available. Create a new host update baseline, select the downloaded package (*.Zip) -> then stage and remediate it.(Before you do put the ESXi host in the Maintainence Mode.)

If you want it manually to do it. Login into putty -> copy the downloaded update to ESX server(/temp or /opt )  directory . extract the bundle. run the command esxupdate <downloaded file location>

Thanks!!

[a_p_]

Welcome to the Community,

unfortunately the vCenter Server Appliance does not come with Update Manager (http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2011/08/10/vcenter-appliance/), so you either need to install it separately or update your hosts manually. With just two hosts, I think the manual update is what you may want to go for. All you basically need to do, is to put a host into Maintenance Mode and run a few commands (esxcli software update ....) from e.g. a vCLI command line. Please take a look at e.g. http://communities.vmware.com/people/vmroyale/blog/2011/09/15/updating-esxi-5--single-use-esxcli-how... for details.

There's currently no update available for the vCenter Server Appliance. However, version 5.0 supports ESXi 5.0 Update 1 hosts (see http://partnerweb.vmware.com/comp_guide2/sim/interop_matrix.php).

André