updating lab enviroment

[glassin]

I have the free hypervisor version of esxi   2016.03.02  build 3617585.   I have 89 updates listed do I possibly go through and install 1 by 1 ?

additionally in an enterprise environment when I choose stage does that put the host in maintenance mode?  or should I be doing that ahead of time?

[a_p_]

Updating a free Hypervisor can be done either interactively using a current CD-ROM image, or from the command line using the "esxcli software update profile ... " command with latest update/patch bundle (.zip file).

Unless I'm mistaken, staging the patches doesn't require Maintenance Mode, nor does it enable it. This is only required for the final remediation.

André