Does anyone know if there is anything like windows updates or YUM, for ESX HOSTS. I know a lot have mentioned scripts to run for patches. But I thought it would be a good idea if we could run something that would include all patches
Have you seen esx-autopach.pl at the http://www.vmprofessional.com/ site?
Patch links...
Patch Management for ESX Server 3 - http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx3_esxupdate.pdf
Download - http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/index.html
ESX patches - http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/vi3_patches.html#c4310
Virtual Center 2.0.1 Patch2 - http://www.vmware.com/support/vi3/doc/vc-201-200702-patch.html
Autopatching ESX host - http://virtrix.blogspot.com/2007/03/vmware-autopatching-your-esx-host.html
Patching and updating Vmware ESX Server 3 - http://download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2006/tac9858.pdf
Automated download of ESX patches - http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=600341
Patch Script: - http://www.vmprofessional.com/material/esx-autopatch.pl
Pre-compiled patchlist.txt - http://www.vmprofessional.com/material/3.0.1/patchlist.txt and http://www.vmprofessional.com/material/3.0.0/patchlist.txt
