hehe,
is a good thing, but my scripting knowledge is very low end 
if there are some suggestions, I would be pleased to see it in this post
Okay once again.
Put all your patches on a windows share that is accessible from each esx server and use smb or cifs to mount the directory. Name the patches on the share in the order that you want them installed. Cut and paste the following script and save and chmod it. You can delete the mount check stuff if you know the mount is up. It is simply checking for a text file to exist and if not found it will run "mount -a" and hopefully you have your smb mount in your fstab.
Save your credentials to mount the volume in /etc/vmwarecred as:
username=isoshare or whatever
password=isoshare or whaever
Then have the mount in your fstab as:
//lab2k3fs142/vmiso /vmimages/vmiso smbfs uid=501,gid=501, credentials=/etc/vmwarecred 0 0
Good luck!
#!/bin/sh
\# All updates are found at the NFS mount vmiso under the esxupdates folder
\# Set some variables here
typeset -r MOUNT="/opt/vmiso/esxupdates"
\# Functions here
mountcheck()
{
echo "Checking that the updates are available, Please wait..."
echo ""
if [\[ -f "$MOUNT/mount-up.txt" ]]
then
return
else
mounterror
fi
}
mounterror()
{
echo "Mount is not up, trying to remount..."
mount -a
return
}
update()
{
for UPDATE in $( ls $MOUNT/*.tgz )
do
cd /var/updates
echo "Extracting $UPDATE, Please wait..."
tar zxf $UPDATE
echo""
\# Get the update directory
UPDATEDIR=$(ls -lc $UPDATE | cut -f5 -d"/" | cut -f1 -d".")
chown root:root /var/updates/$UPDATEDIR
cd /var/updates/$UPDATEDIR
echo "Applying $UPDATEDIR to this server, Please wait..."
esxupdate -n --force update
echo ""
done
}
cleanup()
{
rm -rf /var/updates/*
}
\################
\# Main Program #
\################
\# Check that the mount is up before applying updates
clear
mountcheck
update
cleanup
#END
