The Update/vCenter update manager VM

Similar Questions

• How to use the Update Manager

  I'm going to update ESXi 5.5 hosts my cluster but I know Update Manager component, so I ask if it is possible to host unique patch so that I can test VM on it and then to extend the update to the other guests.

  Can you offer me to apply all updates or it is usually to give priority to the security updates? I use Vmware image of HP because my hosts are server blades Proliant.

  How can I start? You have to suggest the quick start guide?

  Update Manager downloads the list of patches available from vmware.com. To configure the frequency of the update of the repository, click on House. Click the Update Manager icon. On the Configuration tab, click Patch download calendar.

  To view the scheduled task Patch download, click Homepage > scheduled tasks > VMware vCenter Update Manager Update to download.

  
  Notes:

  • To manually run this task, right-click the task, click run.

  • When you run the task, see task Download Patch definitions in the these last tasks.

  • If the download Patch definitions task fails, make sure that Update Manager can reach vmware.com. For more information

  To set baselines to the ESX host:

  1. Click home > hosts and Clusters.

  2. Highlight the ESX host, you want to update, and then click the Update Manager .

  3. Click on Attach. Select host patches critical and not critical host patches of baselines, and then click attach.

     Note: to create basic custom lines click home > Update Manager > planning and groups > Create.

  To analyze the ESX host for missing patches on the repository, right-click on the ESX host and click find updates > patches and Extensions > Scan.

  Notes:

  • Scan progress is displayed by The entity of Scan task in the recent tasks.

  • The analysis of the host does not affect running virtual machines.

  • If parsing fails, make sure that the ports between Update Manager and the ESX host is open. For more information, seerequirements of ports network VMware Update Manager (1004543).

  • When the analysis is complete, you will see the number of missing patches on the ESX host. If some patches are missing, you see Compliant.

  To restore the missing patches to the ESX host:

  1. Turn off all the virtual machines or vMotion them to another ESX host.
  2. Place the ESX host in maintenance mode. Right click on the ESX host, choose to enter the Maintenance Modeand click on Yes.
  3. Right-click on the ESX host and choose clean > host patches critical and not critical host patches of baselines, and then click Next.
  4. Choose which updates or patches to install, click Next > Next > Finish.

  Notes:

  • Progress of sanitation are illustrated by the task of the principal remedy in the recent tasks.

  • This task could take some time as Update Manager starts to download the patches to the vmware.com website.

  • If the restore fails, ensure that Update Manager, ESX host, and vmware.com ports are open. For more information, see requirements of ports network VMware Update Manager (1004543).

• The ESX host could restart after complete rehabilitation.

  Also, you can check out the link below to watch the video and more on

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=1019545

• Essentials more Kit - can't find the Update Manager

  Hi all

  We are using VMware Essentials Plus Kit. Now, I want to update our vSphere ESXi hosts. Unfortunately I don't find the Update Manager in vSphere Client when connected to vCenter. See screen attached.

  1 belongs to Update Manager Essentials Plus Kit?

  2. How can I add update plugin eat at my facility?

  

  
  

  Thanks for help.

  Update Manager is a separate facility that AFAIK.  A server with a database connection is needed to run it.

  If you run the Vmware-VIMSetup-all file from a windows-based server, you will see the installer for the Manager to update as well as prerequisites for installation.

  Dean

• Cannot install the Update Manager in the same virtual Center Server

  Hello

  I'm trying to install the vsphere Update Manager but I crash at the same point...

  I would like to install it in the same server vcenter, (windows server 2012) in order to not create another machine virtual to just install a plugin...

  Thanks in advance

  

  Installed the Update Manager client? Install the updated Client Plugin Manager

• Download the patches and the stage manually in the Update Manager?

  I need to perform an orchestrated to ESXi upgrade using Update Manager, however, my server vcenter and client computer for Update Manager are on isolated network segments that are not allowed on the internet. How can I download the patches and their step manually in the Update Manager? That is to say, I want to download the patches from a computer that has internet connectivity and then upload to Update Manager.

  Please help!

  Thank you very much.

  You can use the Update Manager download service to download your updates and copy at VUM in isolate network,

  Following the documentation and the Ko with description for this case:

  DOC:

  VMware vSphere 5.1

  Ko

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=1004455

  Kind regards

  Joao castro

• Using the Update Manager when he is incapable of vMotion.

  Using the Update Manager when he is incapable of vMotion.

  I have three Essentials licensed 5.0 hosts and vCenter operating on one of them as a virtual machine. All VM runs on the local disk. I'm tired of patching of CLI and want to use the Update Manager. I can easily do that, on the other hand, two hosts where vCenter is not running but obviously not on the host where it is running.

  I have a data store that is shared in the form of a QNAP NAS, but I can't Storage vMotion because of licensing restrictions. I can't do a vMotion "shared nothing" to another host due to the same restriction. It's like a catch-22 situation.

  I have the service window where I can turn off all the virtual machine

  Anyone has ideas on the use of Update Manager in this configuration or do I just forget about it

  Clone the vCenter even to another VM and make the vcenter temp on another host or elsewhere to deploy a new vCenter on another host and update the host from there

• WebClient tab of the Update Manager

  I loaded the web client.

  Update Manager installed on the server vcenter (small number of virtual machines)

  I see what this update manager checked for downloads (attached)

  but I don't see the Update Manager tab (red arrow in the attached screen) Monitor tab in the client...

  So I don't think it's a question I Admin priv

  any ideas?

  However, starting with the next version of vSPhere, the traditional vSphere client will disappear and the web client will be used.

  Although the plans are to drop the Windows Client in the future, I'm sure that VMware Update Manager in the Web to integrate Client or always ship the Windows Client until all plugins are available for the Web Client.

  André

• ESXi 4.0 can be upgraded to 4.1 via the Update Manager?

  Hello

  ESXi 4.0 can be upgraded to 4.1 via the Update Manager, or what I have to do it manually via vihostupdate.pl? Is it also possible to upgrade via CD offline? That is, will be the Setup routine recognizes the installed version and keep the configuration?

  At least the Upgrade Guide describes Update Manager as a solution to perform the upgrade - 4.1 does not appear here yet however!

  / edit: Ah, I completely forgot that I must use the base line upgrade instead of Patch baseline. I can specify the ZIP file for the upgrade!

  Thank you

  right, the Update Manager-> create-> home-setting baseline to day-> file-> download the .iso image file or image .zip of ESX (i) 4.1.

• Automatic shutdown of the virtual machines in the Update Manager

  Is it possible to automatically stop the virtual machines as part of the Update Manager?  We have our virtual machines configured for auto power off/start with the host.  But when we apply a lot of patching ESX using the Update Manager, he waits for us to stop manually before putting the host in maintenance mode.

  Any way to automate that? Thank you!

  But when we apply a lot of patching ESX using the Update Manager, he waits for us to stop manually before putting the host in maintenance mode.

  Lol WHA each fails to accomplish is ESX is an enterprise product, it must be used with vMotion.  If the Update Manager is designed to make this easy and pain free, so if you have the shared storage, your VM will migrate to another host, maintenance is done, and the virtual machine back.

  ESX is essentially a hands on environment.  I know everyone can't afford a SAN, but ESX caters to these large enterprise systems that do not have SAN.

  By making a patch, so we are now toward the Windows stand alone everyday server where you have done EACH server, or do it manually power off / closure of EACH virtual machine is EVEN easier to do this 1 by 1 on EACH physical host.

  Consider so it cannot be the best option, it isn't that hard to select ALL VM under tension and click "shut down guest.  Besides that if you plan for a breakdown, you can stop the VM remotely (if windows) by using a shutdown script.

  There are a lot of options to do this, but there is no stopping the VM before update, you must do it manually.

• using the Update Manager

  Hello

  I installed a plug-in for the Update Manager. I have well configured my proxy (test).

  I started "Edit update download Assistant". I see that it started to download something... now this info is off 'to-do bar' and I don't know if it is finished or not.

  How can I see if she ended up downloading all the updates for my ESX nodes? Where are stored these updates?

  Thx for your help

  You must at least 3.0.3 for AUVS to work.  However, from 3.0.x I highly recommend a reconstruction.

  http://www.VMware.com/support/VI3/doc/vi3_vum_10u4_rel_notes.html

• Is there an alternative to the Update Manager - download the latest VMWare Tools for Windows Server 2003

  Hello

  I am really struggling to find an alternative to the Update Manager to download the latest VMWare Tools for Windows (Server 2003)

  There must be a link of just download somewhere? I scoured VMWare.com nothing helps...

  I can find of the OSP for other platforms (SUSE, Ubuntu etc), but nothing for Windows! Why?

  Any help really appreciated!

  Kind regards

  Tony.

  So you are saying I need to download the latest version of ESX/vSphere and then extract the VM Tools of which rpm?

  It might be a way to get them, if you are unable to install the product.

  The version will say vSphere 4.0 be OK for ESXi 3.5 VMs?

  Yes

  André

• remove the update manager updates

  I use the Update Manager.  I downloaded a large number of updates that are no longer applicable in my environment and I would like to remove them from the repository so that they are not occupy disk space.  For example, I have more esx 3.0.3 in my environment and I would only the updates that I had downloaded previously removed from the repository.  Anyway is to do.  I see where they are stored on the VirtualCenter server, but I'm reluctant just go and delete the folder containing the esx updates - 3.0.3.

  Thanks for the help.

  This has been an of my by peeves on VUM since its inception. You can not manage the files it downloads. Once downloaded, it is in the database. If the files get damaged, the only way to refresh the files is a re - install Crossover with a database reset. It is the same on the files that you no longer need. No way to get rid of them in the MUV.

  You can use Windows Explorer to delete files, but VUM will always think they are here.

  Dave

  ************************

  If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce today cost $100, get 1 million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing all the world inside.

  Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine

• Files of the Update Manager (download patches) eat space on the system drive. Need a way to migrate the files to another volume.

  I am using vCenter 5.1 U3 with Windows 2008 server R2 edition. C: drive have 64 GB, but most of the time get alert as C: drive is full. When I checked that the folder "Program Data" Update Manager from the c: server busy more than space. I suspect that download files eat my space.

  is it possible to change the location of the download files?

  Hi Mike,.

  To change the default download location:

  1. open the vci - C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\Update Manager\vci integrity.xml - integrity.xml.

  Note: In 64-bit Windows, the default file location is C:\Program Files (x 86) \VMware\Infrastructure\Update Manager\vci - integrity.xml.

  Search for patchStore.

  C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware update Manager\Data\

  Note: Your new directory is empty and contain valid metadata. Copy the data from the old directory, or run the update vCenter Update Manager download.

  Replace the location with the favorite place.

  Save and close the file.

  2. restart the VMware vSphere Update Manager Service.

  I hope this helps with your problem.

• where are stored the Update Manager logs

  This has been driving me crazy!

  I get errors trying to analyze a multitude of vcenter server. And get the error:

  «ESX cannot resolve the DNS name of the hotfix shop VMware vcenter update manager.» Ensure that the name of Update Manager server can be resolved from the ESX host"

  Now my ESXi hosts are on the SAME local network in the vcenter server box, which has also installed on the update server and the plugin. It would be REALLY nice to know where the hell are the real papers showing that the vcenter server and Server Update Manager made during this analysis, not to mention ESXi 4.1 logs can show something interesting.

  Ive found a lot of messages on the server vcenter and verisons esxi 3.5 and 4.0, as well as on ESX (not ESXi)

  Ive even looked in the documentation for the ESXi server and vcentre. He said almost all other newspapers, but does not update the log files manager...

  Where can I find these... im going gaga!

  Sorry, I thought you were in 2008. For XP, I think they're under C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\Update Manager.

  In any case, I'm glad you found the answer.

  ___________________

  A +, EASD, MCP, MCSA, MCSE, MCTS, MCITP, MCDBA, NCDA, VCP4

  If you find this or any other answer useful please consider giving points by checking the correct or helpful answer.

• Install the Update Manager

  OK, I tried this at least 5 different times, and its doesn't work simply do not.

  I have install ISO MU.  It starts the installation, I put the IP address of the VC (vCenter 4.0) I put my DSN (he discovers during the installation).  I plug my values of connection, I tried a local account, I tried a Windows account and I tried a SQL account, they ALL work fine.  I can connect to the database as SQL admin, I created another account to SQL, Windows account, Local account, the domain account, every account I don't see.  I tried the installation with all THE of them.

  Whenever I restart the machine.  I tried to install MU as a Local Windows user and a domain (with administrative rights) user.  I had to do ALL this with vCenter 2.5.  It was not that difficult.

  Now, for some reason, I restart wildlife / machine.  No matter what I do I get an error that it cannot find UM (it gives me the name of the computer) but it is there, the installation is not complaining, it does not actually install worked perfect every time.  I can see the task for UM in the scheduled task, so I know the part works, but every time I activate the plug it says there is a problem connecting to the database of UNIFIED Messaging.

  So where can I find the logs?  Nothing shows up in Windows application except restarted service newspapers.  I can't understand this, everything else works.  This is a new installation of Windows 2008 Server STD 64-bit.  But this makes no sense.  I can not understand whence the error, it is the newspaper of VC?  I can't make pile or face of this, since vCenter works nothing else I have problems with.

  Update Manager is not compatible with Windows Server 2008.

  http://www.VMware.com/PDF/vSphere4/R40/vsp_compatibility_matrix.PDF

• Install the Update Manager plugin on my laptop

  I installed the VIC on my laptop and computer laptop of my colleague and the autcomatically of downloads began. Does this mean that the patches are being downloaded somewhere on my laptop?

  Should I have installed the PLUGIN on my virtual server to the Center first? Is how important it? If so, should I uninstall and reinstall the plugin on my VC server first?

  The patches are not being downloaded to your laptop.  The plugin only allows you to manage Update Manager of in vCenter.  The actual installation of the update on the Server Manager determines the location of the hotfix downloads.

  Don't worry, order in which you have installed plug-ins in.  Just install in places you need to manage your environment.