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Thanks for your explanations thus far. They have been helpful.
For no 4, Update Manager is required vCenter, which you able to perform patch that will downloaded from repository but your vCenter cannot be down. For me if only 1 or 2 hosts, better using the ESXi installation cd to be upgraded, more easily. (PUt-in cd, run it, then will have upgrade options).
If I understand what you said, Update Manager (part of vCenter) needs to up to the patch level that the ESXi version on the hosts is going to, or higher (V4.1 Update 2 or v5.0.1). Using Update Manager I can download the patches from the VMWare repository off the web. The vCenter VM must be available when doing the patch, so it needs to be migrated off the host to be upgraded. This would be one way to go.
For some reason, you feel that only having 2 nodes it is better to use the CD. How do I build this CD? Does it have to have the Update 2 patch on it? Or are you referring to the original CD/DVD that had ESXi 4.1 on it - and that it will have tools that can pull down the patch?