Patching stand-alone hosts ESXi 4.1

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• Set the permission on a stand-alone host failed with the script that I made

  I made a script to set the permissions on our ESX host.

  The goal is to set the permissions on the host itself. The same permissions when connect directly with the vsphere client to the host.

  The problem is that after running the script, that the permissions are not set to hostlevel. They are only vissible connecting to the virtual Center Server.

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  Does anyone know why the permissions are not set on hostlevel?

  When I run the New VIPermission when connecting to the esx host, it works well...

  Hello

  In order to operate, you need to replace:

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  It is not good to work with objects, comes from a single connection and use directly, as part of another connection (relay something like ToString() + OBN will happen).

  Kind regards

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• vpxuser on stand-alone ESXi

  Hello.

  I always thought that vpxuser is created on ESXi during the process of attaching to vCenter. Hoewever I figured out that this account exists on ESXi, even if the host is not managed by vCenter and has never been (I don't know where I read the news that vpxuser exists only if the host is managed by vC, there is no such info here vSphere 5.5 Documentation Centre). So my question is: what vpxuser need for in the case of standalone ESXi? And could change its permissions or password affect somehow the stand-alone host?

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  André

• Adding a host ESXi 4.0 to vCenter 5.1 supported?

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  We are happy to run until next year when the material is due to an environment joint replacement anyway. For these stand-alone hosts will worm 5 to 4 for now would not win us a lot. (taking into account resources are limited, it is autonomous and running a standard lic) My only concern is the issue of "Purple screen" which was mentioned can expect a vc5 instance when adding ESXi 4.0 U2 or below box. 0.

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  It will not work.  You will need at least two hosts.  This way you can vMotion the vCenter VM to another host.  From there, you can use VUM.  Otherwise, you will need to patch the host as a stand-alone host.

  See below for patching a standalone host

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