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  • 1.  Upgrade VMs guest os automatically

    Posted Oct 23, 2019 07:33 PM

    Hello All,

    Am wondering if there is a solution that provide automation in updating guest OS and Apps using patches. (I mean like right click in vCenter & update guest OS so all other selected VMs will upgrade their OS automatically ) is there something like this ?

    Thanks in advance



  • 2.  RE: Upgrade VMs guest os automatically

    Posted Oct 23, 2019 10:59 PM

    That would be a horrible idea and I don't think you realize how much complexity there is to performing a whole OS upgrade.



  • 3.  RE: Upgrade VMs guest os automatically

    Posted Oct 25, 2019 12:14 PM

    Am looking for a solution like this https://www.ivanti.com/solutions/needs/manage-my-os-and-third-party-application-patches?fbclid=IwAR0UaFiO0a70FA3v-PiZChB…  that VMware provide



  • 4.  RE: Upgrade VMs guest os automatically

    Posted Oct 25, 2019 01:20 PM

    Doesn't exist.



  • 5.  RE: Upgrade VMs guest os automatically

    Posted Oct 26, 2019 04:35 AM

    Can you provide a screenshot for this?

    I believe this is just to update vmtools.



  • 6.  RE: Upgrade VMs guest os automatically

    Posted Oct 26, 2019 06:25 AM

    It's not a good suggestion, but if you really want to do this: you can modify default ISO image of VMware Tools (in the ESXi VMFS) and put a startup script that can start and run windows update in the guest OS, then you almost achieve your goal :smileywink: