Hi there,
VMware release individual patches/updates/security fixes as required but periodically they'll release a rollup update or a new release which will include all previous updates to that date. Between these rollups additional individual patches may be released that you will need to find an install manually unless your policy is to wait for the next rollup, so you need to consider your patching policy as to how you'll approach this, whether you obtain the patches as they become available or just apply rollups and major updates and releases.
Regardless, the easiest way to manage this is via Update Manager if you have the facility, you can automatically download all the updates, rollups, patches, hot fixes etc. and create baselines which will do the work for you in scanning the hosts and working out what patches are missing, and make sure you can get them all to the same patching level- but in the short term, you can install the latest Update (eg. 5.1 Update 3) and that will include all the updates up to the release date of that update. To make sure you can check the Release Notes to confirm exactly what patches and fixes are included in each release.
Hope this helps
vM
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