Patch Update 2 over network?

[virtualesxer]

I have a SATA CD-rom player, and had to resort to installing ESX over FTP (because ESX tripped real badly on the SATA). Can I do the same with the Patch to Update 2? Over FTP, I mean (or HTTP).

Thanks.

[Troy_Clavell · Accepted solution]

I patched my U2 server over ftp with no problems. I placed the patch on our FTP server, unzipped it and used a pearl script to pull the patch down to ESX and patch it successfully.

We do not use VUM, so all of our patches are done by downloading the patch(s), placing it on our FTP site and patching that way.

Hope this helps.

[virtualesxer]

Yes, most helpful, thanks!

So, you're actually patching directly from the console, right? (sorry, this will be my first patch). I thought you had to install over ftp; but if it can be done AT the console itself, all the better even! That should make it even easier! I plan to take these steps (at the console):

cd /var/updates

md5sum upgrade-from-esx3.5-3.5.0_Update_2-110268.zip

unzip upgrade-from-esx3.5-3.5.0_Update_2-110268.zip

cd upgrade-from-esx3.5-3.5.0_Update_2-110268

esxupdate update

That seem right to you? I really don't want to mess it up!

Thanks again!

[virtualesxer]

cd /var/updates

md5sum upgrade-from-esx3.5-3.5.0_Update_2-110268.zip

unzip upgrade-from-esx3.5-3.5.0_Update_2-110268.zip

cd upgrade-from-esx3.5-3.5.0_Update_2-110268

esxupdate update

Can anyone confirm these steps, please? I'd like to get this update on the way, as soon as possible!

[Troy_Clavell]

when patching make sure your host is in maintenance mode.

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35/vi3_35_25_esxupdate.pdf

[virtualesxer]

Thanks. That went a lot easier than I thought it would.

I'm seeing a whole lot of new processes, though (see below). Are they supposed to be there?

root 2813 0.0 1.3 29540 3696 ? S 12:40 0:00 /var/pegasus/bin/cimprovagt 14 17 SLPProviderModule

root 2844 0.0 1.7 23088 4704 ? S 12:40 0:00 /var/pegasus/bin/cimprovagt 18 21 VMwareIpmiOemExtenServProvider

root 2865 0.0 1.5 30808 4296 ? S 12:40 0:00 /var/pegasus/bin/cimprovagt 17 22 VICimProvider

root 2866 0.0 1.4 19636 4000 ? S 12:40 0:00 /var/pegasus/bin/cimprovagt 17 24 RegisteredSensorProfile

root 2868 0.0 1.5 19648 4056 ? S 12:40 0:00 /var/pegasus/bin/cimprovagt 17 26 RegisteredSystemMemoryProfile

root 2869 0.0 1.4 19596 3968 ? S 12:40 0:00 /var/pegasus/bin/cimprovagt 17 28 OMC_ProfileRegistrationProfile

root 2871 0.0 1.4 19620 3964 ? S 12:40 0:00 /var/pegasus/bin/cimprovagt 17 30 RegisteredPowerSupplyProfile

root 2872 0.0 1.4 19592 3964 ? S 12:40 0:00 /var/pegasus/bin/cimprovagt 17 32 CLPAdminDomainProfile

root 2873 0.0 1.4 19644 3960 ? S 12:40 0:00 /var/pegasus/bin/cimprovagt 17 34 RegisteredPhysicalAssetProfile

root 2874 0.0 1.4 19608 3968 ? S 12:40 0:00 /var/pegasus/bin/cimprovagt 17 36 RegisteredSoftwareInventoryProfile

root 2876 0.0 1.4 19596 3964 ? S 12:40 0:00 /var/pegasus/bin/cimprovagt 17 38 BaseServerProfile

root 2878 0.0 1.4 19644 4000 ? S 12:40 0:00 /var/pegasus/bin/cimprovagt 17 40 RegisteredBatteryProfile

root 2880 0.0 1.4 19636 3960 ? S 12:40 0:00 /var/pegasus/bin/cimprovagt 17 42 CPUProfile

root 2882 0.0 1.4 19640 4000 ? S 12:40 0:00 /var/pegasus/bin/cimprovagt 17 46 RegisteredFanProfile

root 2884 0.0 1.4 19580 3964 ? S 12:40 0:00 /var/pegasus/bin/cimprovagt 17 48 RegisteredRecordLogProfile

root 2914 0.0 2.3 43348 6372 ? S 12:41 0:00 /var/pegasus/bin/cimprovagt 10 13 SensorProvider

root 2918 0.0 1.9 54948 5352 ? S 12:41 0:00 /var/pegasus/bin/cimprovagt 73 76 RawIpmiProvider

root 2929 0.1 1.5 42676 4052 ? S 12:41 0:00 /var/pegasus/bin/cimprovagt 76 79 VMware_LatchedHealthState

root 2934 0.0 2.4 32980 6704 ? S 12:41 0:00 /var/pegasus/bin/cimprovagt 80 83 SMBIOSProvider

root 2939 0.0 2.3 23036 6420 ? S 12:41 0:00 /var/pegasus/bin/cimprovagt 84 87 LogicalIpmiProvider

root 2943 0.0 1.5 22324 4088 ? S 12:41 0:00 /var/pegasus/bin/cimprovagt 88 91 VMware_PortController

root 2945 0.0 1.4 22188 4008 ? S 12:41 0:00 /var/pegasus/bin/cimprovagt 91 94 VMware_Controller

root 2947 0.0 1.5 22336 4100 ? S 12:41 0:00 /var/pegasus/bin/cimprovagt 94 97 VMware_Battery

root 2949 0.0 1.5 22404 4192 ? S 12:41 0:00 /var/pegasus/bin/cimprovagt 97 100 VMware_StorageVolume

root 2951 0.0 1.5 22408 4196 ? S 12:41 0:00 /var/pegasus/bin/cimprovagt 100 103 VMware_StorageExtent

root 2953 0.0 1.5 22464 4176 ? S 12:41 0:00 /var/pegasus/bin/cimprovagt 103 106 VMware_DiskDrive

root 2955 0.0 1.5 22320 4080 ? S 12:41 0:00 /var/pegasus/bin/cimprovagt 106 109 VMware_SASSATAPort

root 2957 0.0 1.4 22168 3976 ? S 12:41 0:00 /var/pegasus/bin/cimprovagt 109 112 VMware_StoragePool

[Troy_Clavell]

yes, looks good.

When the patch is insatlled you can run a console command and find out if it was installed successfully

esxupdade -l query

This command will give you a list of all patches that have been applied to your Host. Also, the build number of your host will probably change.

[virtualesxer]

Thanks. Yes, I had already done that (see output below). And I also verified the Update 2 patch, and everything went 100% (or so it reported). It's just that I'd never seen these new processes before. I guess, upon reflection, there're part of "Updates to CIM and Pegasus".

Installed software bundles:

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3.5.0-64607 17:59:04 07/13/08 Full bundle of ESX 3.5.0-64607

ESX350-200802303-SG 17:59:05 07/13/08 util-linux security update

ESX350-200802304-SG 17:59:05 07/13/08 perl security update

ESX350-200802305-SG 17:59:05 07/13/08 openssl security update

ESX350-200802306-BG 17:59:05 07/13/08 tzdata update

ESX350-200802408-SG 17:59:05 07/13/08 Security Updates to the Python Package.

ESX350-200803209-UG 17:59:07 07/13/08 Update to the ESX Server Service Console

ESX350-200803210-UG 17:59:07 07/13/08 Update to VMware-esx-drivers-net-bnx2

ESX350-200803212-UG 17:59:08 07/13/08 Update VMware qla4010/qla4022 drivers

ESX350-200803213-UG 17:59:08 07/13/08 Driver Versioning Method Changes

ESX350-200803214-UG 17:59:08 07/13/08 Update to Third Party Code Libraries

ESX350-Update01 17:59:09 07/13/08 ESX Server 3.5.0 Update 1

ESX350-200804404-BG 10:36:11 08/17/08 Update to VMware-esx-drivers-scsi-vmkisc

ESX350-200804405-BG 10:36:11 08/17/08 Update to VMware-esx-drivers-scsi-megara

ESX350-200805504-SG 10:36:11 08/17/08 Security Update to Cyrus SASL

ESX350-200805505-SG 10:36:11 08/17/08 Security Update to unzip

ESX350-200805506-SG 10:36:11 08/17/08 Security Update to Tcl/Tk

ESX350-200805507-SG 10:36:11 08/17/08 Security Update to krb5

ESX350-200805514-BG 10:36:11 08/17/08 Update to VMware-esx-drivers-net-e1000

ESX350-200808201-UG 10:36:11 08/17/08 Updates VMkernel, Service Console, hostd

ESX350-200808202-UG 10:36:11 08/17/08 Update to ESX Scripts

ESX350-200808203-UG 10:36:11 08/17/08 Update to Backup Tools

ESX350-200808205-UG 10:36:11 08/17/08 Updates to CIM and Pegasus

ESX350-200808206-UG 10:36:11 08/17/08 Update to vmware-hwdata

ESX350-200808207-UG 10:36:11 08/17/08 Update to VMware-esx-lnxcfg

ESX350-200808209-UG 10:36:11 08/17/08 Update to VMware-esx-srvrmgmt

ESX350-200808210-UG 10:36:11 08/17/08 Update to VMware-esx-drivers-net-ixgbe

ESX350-200808211-UG 10:36:11 08/17/08 Update to the tg3 Driver

ESX350-200808212-UG 10:36:11 08/17/08 Update to the MegaRAID SAS Driver

ESX350-200808213-UG 10:36:11 08/17/08 Update to the MPT SCSI Driver

ESX350-200808214-UG 10:36:11 08/17/08 Update to the QLogic SCSI Driver

ESX350-200808215-UG 10:36:12 08/17/08 Update to the Emulex SCSI Driver

ESX350-200808217-UG 10:36:12 08/17/08 Update to Web Access

ESX350-200808218-UG 10:36:12 08/17/08 Security Update to Samba

ESX350-Update-02 10:36:12 08/17/08 ESX Server 3.5.0 Update 2

New packages:

hpasm-8.0.0-173.vmware30

hpsmh-2.1.11-197