Slow Update Manager process

[AllBlack]

Hi there,

I was tasked yesterday with patching some ESX boxes. They pretty much had not been patched since dinosaurs roamed the earth.

The version was 98103.

I patched them with the standard baselines for critical and non-critical hosts.

The first server took me 3 hours to patch and I would like to know whether it is because these hosts where way out of date or that it is something else?

I did notice, for example, that it installed all upgrade packs (U1,U2,U3) because they sat in my baseline and perhaps that is a cause.

Are patches cummulative? For example, would I have been able to go straight to U3 and apply every patch relesed since U3 after?

Cheers

[AntonVZhbankov]

Not sure if update packs are cummulative, but update manager never worked very fast

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VMware vExpert '2009

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[admin]

There were several issues that likely caused your patch operation to take this long. Update releases should be obsoleting prior Update releases - this will happen starting with U4 and later releases. This will allow VUM to not have to install U1, then U2 and then U3; rather, it could install U4 directly.

Which version of VUM were you using? VUM U4 has some fixes for performance bugs.

[AllBlack]

Hello.

The version of the VUM client is 1.0 U2.

The virtual center is build 104215. This means the virtual center is out of date too.

I will have to upgrade to VC U4 first I suppose and see if it is still a problem

[AntonVZhbankov]

You should upgrade to VC U4 for one more reason - there is a fix for problem with UM plugin unloading.

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[AllBlack]

That's good. It's been driving me nuts

[AntonVZhbankov]

You are not alone

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VMware vExpert '2009

http://blog.vadmin.ru