Update Manager

[kamalsharma]

Can anyone please tell me whether we can scan 2 or 3 ESX servers against the same update manager at the same time or we just had to do one at a time?

I am able to scan all of them one by one but as soon as i try to run scan on 2 or three of them, only first one runs fine and rest all error's out with "Vmware Update Manager had a failure"

I don't have anything conclusive neither in update manager log on virtual center and nor on ESXupdate.log on ESX.

thanks in advance.

[krowczynski]

If you have an Cluster installed you can click on your cluster and then make "Scan for Updates".

After that all you host shold be scannes for updates.

[kamalsharma]

No, I don't have cluster in place. I just have one datastore in which i have my six ESX servers and in order to scan multiple of them at the same time, I am right clicking on each one of them and choosing an option for scan updates. Only the first one works while the rest erros out.

[krowczynski]

Have you tried the first host to scan, that wait until its finished an d then the second and son on?

[kamalsharma]

yes...thats what i said in the begining. I can scan all of them one by one afte first finishes up. But not all of them.

[krowczynski]

Well thats strange!!

Perhaps this host can help you?

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/122795

[kamalsharma]

I can't disconnect and reconnect my ESX to virtual center as its a VDI environment and Citrix Xendesktop is using VM's after accessing ESX through virtual center. However, I surely tried deleting my baseline and recreting and that didn't worked either.

[bulletprooffool]

Create a container in your VC (Foler / Cluster / Datacenter)

Move your hosts into this container - then you can simply right click the container and select 'Scan for updates' to scan all the hosts in the container.

You can move the hosts while they are running

[kamalsharma]

I tried that and it did the same thing.

However, we figured out our problem. The default number of session allowed to database is 10. We increased it to 50 and now my scans are all going fine and even they are taking lesser amount of time.

I will reply back to this thread incase i still have problems