Installation of patches in ESXi V4.1

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• Script the installation of patches

  Hi guys,.

  I need to update a bunch of ESXi5.5 self-contained bed and breakfast, about 160 remote locations.

  The hosts are autonomous, vMotion, etc. are not available options

  I'm trying to create a script to perform the following operations

  1. Stadium updates ESXi55 of VUM
  2. Power off all VM running on each host (I found how to do this by calling a list of virtual machines to a .csv and on each virtual machine using the command Stop-VM)
  3. Put the host in Maintenance Mode
  4. install the patches / updates
  5. Reboot the host after installation of patches/updates
  6. Powering the same VM who were earlier closure (again, found this by using the Start-VM command in step 2 above)
  7. Run a report on the Patching for audits of compliance (following a discussion by LucD for this)

  Someone has already tried this PowerCLI or should I stick with the GUI?

  Any help on any piece above would be great.

  Thank you

  Seems good, just some minor modifications.

  $vc = Read-Host "enter the name of the vCenter used to manage ESXi hosts.

  SE connect-VIServer $vc

  Game-PowerCLIConfiguration - ignore InvalidCertificateAction - confirm: $False

  $hosts = get-VMHost (Get-Content C:\Temp\ListOfHosts.txt)

  $BL_Name = Read-Host "Please enter the name of the baseline scan, for example primary ESX patches 2nd quarter of 2015.

  $baseline = get-Baseline | Where-Object {$_.} {Name: corresponds to "$($BL_Name)"}

  {foreach ($item in $hosts)

  $compliancestatus = get-compliance-entity $item - unknown ComplianceStatus

  If {($compliancestatus)

  Inventory-scan-entity $item - RunAsync

  }

  Stage-Patch-entity $item - Baseline $baseline - RunAsync-confirm: $false

  }

  What exactly hand you mean with "..." not as clean as I would like to"?"

• Patching VMware ESXi

  So, I recently discovered that my VMware ESXi running ESXi 5.5.0 version 1331820 build number (ESXi 5.5.0 GA). Now, I know that there are a few fixes that have been released, ESXi550-201410001 is the most recent, because as far as I know. It would be convenient to patch, also if this is the case, can I just go what version I am now, download the recent patch and install directly, or is there a few required required fixes before. Active and important virtual machines running on hosts that I would be "patching" it may be closed, but it would be really bad if the patch to cause problems for causing problems for VMS host.

  I'm new to this, as I have never "patched" before ESXi. I guess I can use this (KB VMware: installation of patches on an ESXi host from the command-line 5.x ) as the documentation on how to install those.

  Thanks in advance!

  Yes, the ESXi patches are cumulative.

  Please read this blog post from VMware:are cumulative patches ESXi | VMware vSphere Blog - VMware Blogs

  Another good blog post about it:VMware experience before: are some cumulative patches 5.x ESXi?

• Reason for the staging of patches for ESXi?

  When you use the Update Manager tool I can select this option to patches 'stage' to an ESXi host, which I believe is to copy the relevant patches to the host before installation, but is there a difference to do this or do both copy and install at the same time?

  Are there different downtime for the host compared to these two options?

  When fix you is when the host needs to go into maintenance mode, not during the staging process

• Error during installation of patches and critical updates

  Hello

  My Service to update OR provide just 7 critical updates and patches, I have downloaded and tried to install. However, two facilities were unsuccessful andproduced error messages attached. A possible reason for these errors could have the laptop fell asleep during installation, but I'm not sure about this.

  My question is how I can find and try to re - install these critical updates and patches? Update Service does not provide me a list of installed updates, nor does their status as the update of Windows. Please notify. Thank you.

  Update Service stores the rest of installation programs C:\ProgramData\National Instruments\Update Service\Installers\NI_date_time. You can try to re - run the setup.exe.

  If the error happens again, there should be a more general installation failure, but we can look more closely at the error code of debugging here.

• Is it legal (and good) to deploy a custom with an installer Vista patch?

  Hello

  First of all, sorry if I'm in the wrong forum. I was quite confused about the place where my question.

  Background

  I work for a software company that deploys a financial application approximately 3000 users. For money transfers, we use a third-party solution.

  This third party uses the Jet DB. The developer of this third solution has recently found a bug that was caused by a known Bug in Windows Vista, which, in turn, has been resolved with Vista SP2. Of course, there is a fix so (KB943509 ).

  To resolve the bug users must be vista sp2 or the hotfix.

  Questions

  1. We thought to deploy this patch with our next installation as a sine qua non. Is this a good idea?
  2. To download the fix, I had to check my installation with wga. If deploy us the patch, this check would not apply to users. This leaves wondering: is - it legal to deploy a patch from microsoft for windows for which users check their installation of windows?

  Thank you and have a nice day

  Kind regards

  Fraghdad

  Hi Fraghdad,
  Thank you for visiting the Microsoft Answers forum.
  I suggest asking your question in the forum TechNet (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/category/windowsvistaitpro) that he would be better suited, and there are more experienced people who will give you a better support for your needs.

  Thanks, Martin
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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• Parameters of OEM for pre/Post Installation (deployment/patch) Scripts

  If all goes well, a simple question.

  Install scripts OEM 12 c Supports pre/post in the form of shell scripts that can be run before and after a deployment or patching operation (for example when you deploy the Client OEM to a system, you can run a script before installation or after installation).

  These scripts can take a parameter?  Specifically, can the machine which is deployed to be transmitted to these scripts shell as a parameter (for example /opt/my_shell_script.sh HOST % where % HOST would be replaced by the host name being patched or transferred to for example).

  To be clear, I don't mean to have a script running ON the area being installed to... I want to use the box being installed in as a parameter of a script running on the Server OEM.

  Cannot find any documentation on what or if the parameters are supported in these pre/post installation scripts.

  Any information would be appreciated.

  Hello

  One of the ways to circumvent the requirement of SUDO is to use the silent method of agent

  REF

  Installation of the Oracle in silent Mode Management Agent

  http://docs.Oracle.com/CD/E24628_01/install.121/e24089/install_agent_usng_rsp.htm#CEGGACJE

  Also check

  EM 12: what Sudo permissions are required to install Agent using the method of deployment with the user account locked (Doc ID 1489270.1)

  Kind regards

  Rahul

• Apply a Patch on ESXi 5.0.0 update

  Hello

  I have an ESXi host 5.0.0 build 623860 and would like to apply the latest patch of bug fixes. It is necessary that we apply all previous patches? If I only apply the most current path already contains the latest Patch fixes?

  Thank you.

  You can apply the last batch of patches to be up-to-date (see ESXi 5.x Patch Matrix) assuming you are using the VMware, i.e. no provider OEM images image with additional or modified content. Also make sure that the last package supports your hardware.

  André

• VSA configuration and storage before installation of VSA on ESXi

  Is someone can you please remind me how storage should be configured on ESXi until I'll start building VSA?

  VSA is use the local storage of the ESXi hosts.  Should I use local data warehouses already formatted vmfs or raw devices (volumes) and formats?

  Is it true, that, before the installation of VSA, you can no more data VMFS (local) 1 store? If so, this means that VSA will use (use) all available space on the Local data store on the left after installing ESXi (if I'm installing ESXi on local DS as well)?

  Thank you very much!

  VSA manager uses the data store local vmfs to create VSA data warehouses. During the creation of the VSA cluster, you can specify the size of the VSA data store. For example if you have the local data store of 500 GB, you can build cluster VSA using 100 GB of space, so you can have several virtual machines on VSA datastore and a few virtual machines on the local data store. There is an option to extend the VSA data store after creation.

• Installation of VMware ESX/ESXI 4.1 on HP Proliant DL360 G4

  Hello

  I think to buy an old HP Proliant DL360 G4 machine with 2 Xeon 3.6 GHz processors and 4 GB of RAM.  I intend to install VMware ESX or ESXI 4.1 on it.

  I read some reviews of VMware and other products of the hypervisor and all say that these 64-bit Xeons have no VT support option and therefore cannot run 64-bit Windows guest OS.

  Since I just use it as test environment learn more about Windows Server 2008.  I would like to know if I can install ESX 4.1 on the HP DL360 G4 and if so, can I install client Server 2008 32-bit Windows OS on top?

  Another machine, that I'm looking is the Dell Poweredge 2850, which has the same processor and roughly the same features as the DL360 G4.  So I want to know what a Xeon with no VT - x 64-bit is limitation of technology with regard to the installation of the virtual machines based on Windows on it.

  Thanks for any help.

  The Xeon 3.6 have VT - X, so you will not be able to run 64-bit OS comments, as you found it- http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=28019.  You would be OK for customers 32 bits, but you would be prevented from running Windows 2008 R2, because it is 64-bit only.   At this point, I wouldn't bother with a test server that cannot run 64-bit guests.  If you want to stick with a server-class machine I keep watch or watch a white box - vm - Help.com - see the list of the white box.

  Dave
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• How to patch/update ESXi 4.1 (free) now Host Update Utility went

  Hello

  If I understand right now, I need to use vihostupdate (from vsphere CLI) or esxupdate (running in a terminal on the server) to install the new updates/patches on the ESXi 4.1 server.

  The "Host Update Utility" would also find new patches online, this is not possible with vihostupdate or esxupdate? and if no, then how and where can I download new patches/updates?

  -David

  I hope this will help you: http://blog.peacon.co.uk/how-to-patch-esxi-4-1/

  http://blog.peacon.co.UK

  Please give points for any helpful answer.

  Unofficial list of transfer USB devices work

• Patching Embedded ESXi 3.5 and redundancy

  Hello

  I tried to find answers to theses in the documentation, but failed so far.

  I have a Dell 2950 PowerEdge server with ESXi 3.5 embedded.   I understand that I can be updated by using the tool VMware Infrastructure Update, installed on a physical server separate.  Where is the update applied? It is applied directly to the memory card Flash shipped?   When to apply?  If it fails, I can just re - apply the 3.5 version via the update tool?   Is there any built-in redundancy, so that if he does not validate successfully, I can just reboot and the old version of ESXi will still be on the map?

  If there are all the sections of ESXi documentation that refer to this, please let me know.

  Thank you very much!

  Brian

  Welcome to the VMware community forums.   If you mount the USB drive in another operating system, you will see these partitions

  Hypervisor0 - 4 MB

  Hypervisor1 - 47 MB

  Hypervisor2 - 47 MB

  Hypervisor3 - 500 MB (is mounted as /store

  H1 and H2 are where ESXi store its firmware.  H0 has SysLinux, which is the original boot loader.  It will be either boot ESXi of H1 or H2.  When you start with a fresh install, Syslinux will start ESXi of H1 and H2 will be empty.   H1 will be mounted by ESXi as /bootbank and H2 will be /altbootbank.

  When you patch your host, the firmware is written in /altbootbank and the H0 is changed to start from the H2.  The next time you start H2 becomes /bootbank, and H1 is /altbootbank.  When you patch it again reverses again.

  The good thing about this is that easily return you to the previous version.   Press SHIFTR on priming initial screen and you have the option to revert to the previous version, if the host has problems after the upgrade.  ESXi save a backup of your system in /bootbank/state.tgz (for the on-board version local.tgz) configuration.  If you use the SHIFT keyR after a month, any change in config, you made since then would be lost.

• OIM11g Installation question - Patch Upgrade 11.1.1.2 to 11.1.1.5

  The following installation order is followed on OIM 11 g on Linux environment.
  
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  (* 1) installed Oracle DB *.
  (* 2) installed RCU *.
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  Published by: sirot November 15, 2011 01:30
  
  Published by: sirot November 15, 2011 01:32

  Hello

  I'm not at all clear with your question. You have a problem with creation of domain or the regional coordinating unit?

  See you soon,.
  HAS...

• V5.3.49.124_A Toshiba Video Player-installation of patch

  Hello
  I am trying to install an update for Toshiba Video Player, released February 15, 2015 - patch version 5.3.49.124_A. The problem is, whenever I try to install it it says that its extraction of the file, then an error message appears, "Failed to create the file, error 120." Please help in trying to resolve the above error.

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  Can you please tell us what model of laptop do you have?
  You use your laptop computer with the operating system preinstalled (factory settings) of origin?

• Installation of Patch of the recovery Partition has been a success, but I am unable to download Service Pack 2 to upgrade

  Having the upgrade of questions after recovery on Windows XP Edition version 2002 service pack 1 family. Okay, I found the recovery partition patch I needed and download claims it was successful, so I then try to download the Service pack 2 and nothing happening, no error, nothing. Still not sure that it worked. Yet I am unable to download service pack 3 and my updates still do not work. So I guess that the Service Pack 2 does not load correctly. What should I do now? Help?

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  Recovered Windows XP cannot be upgraded to SP2, think I need recovery for SP1 Patch of Partition. How can I find to download?

  Windows XP Home Version 2002 Service Pack 1 "computer" would not start. I could only get it back. This causes problems. Unable to retrieve the updates I have. Impossible to download the Service Pack 2 update the others. My automatic updates do not work. When I tried to download the SP2 it stops and gives me an error message: epplauncher.exe point of entry not found. Encode pointer was not found in the library of dynamic links Kernel32.dll.Can someone help me?

  Did you try and download directly to your computer and run it from there?

  Service pack 1 and service pack 2 Service pack 1 has joined in.

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  Service Pack 2: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=28

  Service Pack 3: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24

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