Were you looking at this definition of roll-up bundle for 3.0.2 : http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=1006978&sliceId=1 ?
Basically it just contains bundles of patches including some that may have been superseded, it's primary user convenience so you don't need to go through each patch and manually downloading. As noted in the page, this does not provide any upgrades such as U1,U2,etc... You'll still want to make sure you baseline not only the bundle but any patches or updates after this bundle release and do some testing in a development environment if possible prior to production upgrade. ESX 3.0.2 is pretty stable build and U2 was the last build I had upgraded to prior to jumping to ESX 3.5.0, good luck.
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William Lam
VMware vExpert 2009
VMware ESX/ESXi scripts and resources at:
Even though I don't have a 3.0.2 system to test, I downloaded the rollup and you're correct the patch in question ESX-1006980 is not available, but while using my search bar in my MAC, I realized that the contents.xml contains a reference to the patch
<folder bundleID="ESX-1006980" name="ESX-1006980" />
There's a potential that one of the sub-patches may have superseded the on in question, one of the nice things is if you try to install a patch that is already installed or has been superseded, it will not work. I think it should be safe to manually download the patch and try to update and see if it allows you to. It'll either work, meaning it was not included int he Rollup-2 or fail stating it's been superseded already.
I assume you're also aware of the self-serve patch portal: http://support.vmware.com/selfsupport/download/ Also you can take a look at VMware Update Manager so you don't need to manually check for dependencies/etc. Just need to create a baseline and do some testing and then apply that baseline across your hosts. I've not used VUM personally myself, but I heard it's decent. I'm sort of skeptical because the actual patch management system is licensed by Shavlik and I've had some bad experiences with their Windows update products in a previous lab I've worked at before, so hopefully their product has improved.
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William Lam
VMware vExpert 2009
VMware ESX/ESXi scripts and resources at: