Hello Guys,
Over the past few hours I have been posting related questions and I have gotten a little closer to updating my server/host.
I have gone to the ESX Server 3i updates (Embedded and Installer) and I have noticed that the first build for ESX 3i is 207095. Which means that I have not done any updates since the installation. CORRECT!
Now... I have been using "ESX Server 3 Patch Management guide, which instructs us to use esxupdate, but it appears that some of the command in that document is not supported on my host.
This post: vihostupdate35 | VMware vSphere Blog - VMware Blogs ..... Tells me that I will have to use "vihostupdate35" from a remote CLI which I installed but cannot see how to connect to the server as I cannot find any document that shows the syntax etc.
At this point I am confused and frustrated and just need a little more guidance from someone who could point me to a document or copy and past the procedures I need to use to get this update done.
I have downloaded this file to do the UPDATE: "ESXe350-201302401-O-SG.zip" and I have extracted it on the host on a Datastore and copied it to my "/Tmp/ESXi350" folder.
I have also extracted it there as well just in case I need to browse to the extracted folder, and run any command.
Can anyone out there help me with the correct SYNTAX and METHOD to get this update installed?
I can connect with SSH from a windows machine using puTTy.exe as well as I have VSphere CLI installed on another Windows PC and can browse to the "C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI\bin" folder to run "vihostupdate35.pl" I can see it in the folder with a "dir" command:
12/11/2014 03:50 PM 0 esxcli.exe.log
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 1,898,106 esxcli.zip
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 12,300 EULA
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 63,778 EULA.rtf
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 207,212 open_source_licenses.txt
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 2,131,968 python26.dll
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 31,348 svmotion.pl
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 82 vcli.bat
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 9,994 vicfg-advcfg.pl
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 12,080 vicfg-authconfig.pl
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 9,196 vicfg-cfgbackup.pl
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 9,456 vicfg-dns.pl
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 13,032 vicfg-dumppart.pl
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 17,081 vicfg-hostops.pl
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 27,513 vicfg-ipsec.pl
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 78,858 vicfg-iscsi.pl
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 7,129 vicfg-module.pl
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 20,277 vicfg-mpath.pl
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 18,477 vicfg-mpath35.pl
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 8,606 vicfg-nas.pl
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 9,696 vicfg-nics.pl
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 7,425 vicfg-ntp.pl
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 2,989 vicfg-rescan.pl
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 13,808 vicfg-route.pl
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 22,439 vicfg-scsidevs.pl
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 12,716 vicfg-snmp.pl
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 5,731 vicfg-syslog.pl
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 37,949 vicfg-user.pl
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 27,369 vicfg-vmknic.pl
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 13,313 vicfg-volume.pl
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 37,164 vicfg-vswitch.pl
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 17,712 vifs.pl
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 24,230 vihostupdate.pl
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 13,787 vihostupdate35.pl
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 41,721 vmkfstools.pl
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 60,794 vmware-cmd.pl
08/13/2014 08:55 AM 49,664 w9xpopen.exe
56 File(s) 5,317,017 bytes
2 Dir(s) 34,432,933,888 bytes free
...So how do I complete this?
(So Close!)