A colleague of mine told me that VMware Update Manager is dropping Support for all updates accept VMware specific ones.
Is this true?
We are thinking of deploying a MS Windows Update Strategy using VMware Update Manager and will look for some other alternative if this is the case.
Thanks
yes, this is true, see release notes
http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_vum_41_rel_notes.html
Update Manager 4.1 and its subsequent update releases are the last releases of the product to support scanning and remediation of patches for Windows and Linux guest operating systems and applications running inside a virtual machine. (A list of such operating systems and applications is available in the section Scanning and Remediation of Virtual Machines and Applications.) This capability will be discontinued in the next major release. If you use this capability today, you should start planning your transition.
yes, this is true, see release notes
http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_vum_41_rel_notes.html
Update Manager 4.1 and its subsequent update releases are the last releases of the product to support scanning and remediation of patches for Windows and Linux guest operating systems and applications running inside a virtual machine. (A list of such operating systems and applications is available in the section Scanning and Remediation of Virtual Machines and Applications.) This capability will be discontinued in the next major release. If you use this capability today, you should start planning your transition.
However now when VMware bought Shavlik (that is what update manager is based on) this will maybe change.
(I have no insight into that, just speculating)
// Linjo
yeah, I agree, probably/maybe integrated into vCO
http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-operations/editions_comparison.html
