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The first server took me 3 hours to patch and I would like to know whether it is because these hosts where way out of date or that it is something else?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
Not sure if update packs are cummulative, but update manager never worked very fast
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VMware vExpert '2009
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.
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 This means the virtual center is out of date too.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
You should upgrade to VC U4 for one more reason - there is a fix for problem with UM plugin unloading.
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VMware vExpert '2009
That's good. It's been driving me nuts
You are not alone
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VMware vExpert '2009