Survey: VMTS Patch Manager feature to manage ESX 3.02 upgrade

[manzi]

What do you think, about the possibility to add the ESX version upgrade to VMTS Patch Manager ?

Thx

Massimiliano Daneri

http://www.vmts.net

[VMKR9]

Good idea, I would use it...

[VirtualNoitall]

Yes please! Love the tool. Keep up the good work!

[TommmyP]

Yes, anyting to make patching easier is golden in my book. So if you can add the major upgrades into VMTS, that would simplify things.

[boydd]

Yes - please do. Could you also have the ESX hosts displayed in alphabetical order (Seems to display them by order that hosts were added to VC).

Keep up the good work.

DB

[lholling]

Hi Manzi

Yes please do add the functionality and as mentioned previously having the servers sorted in alphabetical order would be good!

Leonard...

[TomHowarth]

Another vote in the affirmative from me and all my friends.

VMTS is a exceptional product, it has saved me a vast amount of time. adding the minor version releases into it will only improve its functionallity in my humble opinion

[kgouldsk]

A big vote yes! Some fine work.

[WilliamH]

Yes please! Keep up the good work.

[hharold]

Hear, hear !

Please add any update/upgrade/patch to the Patch Manager.

Keep up the good work!

Cheers,

Harold

[ANSA]

Great idea for a great tool!!

[tlyczko]

Please add 3.0.2 AND 3.1 compatibility.

The reason for requesting 3.1 compatibility in addition to 3.0.2 compatibilty is that VMware's new patching mechanism is apparently only for Virtual Center per se -- it doesn't look like it will be in the client -- which leaves OUT everyone who does not have Virtual Center installed, and people who only use the VC Client for managing ESX and VMs etc.

Thank you, Tom

[sheetsb]

Another vote for having the upgrade as part of the product. I have been using it to upgrade all my hosts and it works really well. As I mentioned before and as did lholling, alphabetical listing of the hosts would make things much easier.

Bill S.

[Hairyman]

I'll add my vote to include 3.0.2 support

[IB_IT]

Absolutely! Thanks for a great app!

[manzi]

Finally the new build is ready

try it

I'm waiting your comments

http://www.vmts.net/VMTSPatchManager.htm

New on 2784

Add ESX Upgrade to Version 3.01 & 3.02

Fix a problem with ESX host non completely configured on VCenter

Fix an issue with external FTP/HTTP repository

Fix an issue with previous version patches

Enhanced Tree View with sorted hosts

Minor bug fix

Massimiliano Daneri

[IB_IT]

Think I'm missing something here...I downloaded and installed the msi file, but I am still on build 2767. Uninstalled and reinstalled and redownloaded and still the same thing...

[manzi]

I think there is some problem with some caching engine, I've just try to download from an other computer and the build is the right one.

Wait some time before retry

M. Daneri

[kgouldsk]

Just wondering if you included anything to create the directory as required in the Virtualcenter release notes, to take advantage of an opportunity to make the VC 2.02 upgrade easier for people:

"Add Host Operation Fails When /tmp/vmware-root Directory is Missing in the ESX Server 3.0.x Host

VirtualCenter Agent fails to upgrade on the host that is missing the /tmp/vmware-root directory. To avoid this issue, ensure the /tmp/vmware-root directory exists in the ESX Server 3.0.x host before you install VirtualCenter 2.0.2 upgrade. See KB 4478241 for complete details. "

Since you're hitting the box anyway, you could create this directory.

[hharold]

Hi,

i've just downloaded and installed the new version.

upgrade options look great, and thanks for the 3.02 support.

I will try the upgrade later today and post my results and findings.

cheers,

Harold