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• problem Manager Update 4.1u1 updated esx 3.5u5

  Hello

  environment: vCenter 4.1u1 with ESX3.5 & 4.0/4.1

  I have to install the new Update Manager (the former is not - it was not 4.1u1). After that, I can't update esx 3.5u5 (207095).

  Scan is finished with the error:

  VMware vCenter Update Manager had an unknown error. Check the log files and tab tasks and events for more details.

  In log file vmware-vum-Server-log4cpp

  [2011-06-08 10:28:00:378 "VcTaskMonitor" DEBUG 2576]  [vcTaskMonitor, 87] VcTaskMonitor to session[2EAD0515-A84E-4212-A696-2C87F83F073F]98B32232-EBF6-4840-984B-6106E6775458
  [2011-06-08 10:28:00:386 "VcTaskMonitor" DEBUG 2576]  [vcTaskMonitor, 142] VcTaskFilterWrapper to session[2EAD0515-A84E-4212-A696-2C87F83F073F]98B32232-EBF6-4840-984B-6106E6775458
  [2011-06-08 10:28:00:386 'InventoryMonitor' 6100 info]  [InventoryMonitor, 437] ProcessUpdate update version, Enter: = 10
  [2011-06-08 10:28:00:387 "VcTaskMonitor" DEBUG 5308]  [vcTaskMonitor, 252] Session[2EAD0515-A84E-4212-A696-2C87F83F073F]98B32232-EBF6-4840-984B-6106E6775458 ProcessUpdate
  [2011-06-08 10:28:05:803 "InventoryMonitor" 6116 INFO]  [InventoryMonitor, 437] ProcessUpdate update version, Enter: = 11
  [2011-06-08 10:28:05:804 "VcTaskMonitor" DEBUG 6116]  [vcTaskMonitor, 252] Session[2EAD0515-A84E-4212-A696-2C87F83F073F]98B32232-EBF6-4840-984B-6106E6775458 ProcessUpdate
  [2011-06-08 10:28:05:804 "VcTaskMonitor" DEBUG 6116]  [vcTaskMonitor, 355] ProcessUpdate task completed session[2EAD0515-A84E-4212-A696-2C87F83F073F]98B32232-EBF6-4840-984B-6106E6775458
  [2011-06-08 10:28:05:813 "VcTaskMonitor" DEBUG 2576]  [vcTaskMonitor, 172] VcTaskFilterWrapper destroyed for session[2EAD0515-A84E-4212-A696-2C87F83F073F]98B32232-EBF6-4840-984B-6106E6775458
  [10:28:05:814 "ScanHost" 2576 ERROR 2011-06-08]  [hostUpdateBase, 534] Platform Configuration Error: ERROR: error of integrity!
  Signature 0BFA1C860F0B0A6CF5CD5D2AEE7835B14789B619: keyExpired: B 4789, 619
  ERROR: BundleID: no events / unknown event
  ERROR: File:/var/spool/esxupdate/contents.xml

  [2011-06-08 10:28:05:814 "VcTaskMonitor" DEBUG 2576]  [vcTaskMonitor, 60] VcTaskMonitor destroyed for session[2EAD0515-A84E-4212-A696-2C87F83F073F]98B32232-EBF6-4840-984B-6106E6775458
  [2011-06-08 10:28:05:816 ' SingleHostScanTask.SingleHostScanTask {9}' ERROR 2576]  [singleHostScanTask, 321] SingleHostScan caught exception: Platform Configuration Error: ERROR: error of integrity!
  Signature 0BFA1C860F0B0A6CF5CD5D2AEE7835B14789B619: keyExpired: B 4789, 619
  ERROR: BundleID: no events / unknown event
  ERROR: File:/var/spool/esxupdate/contents.xml
  with the code:-1
  [2011-06-08 10:28:05:836 ' SingleHostScanTask.SingleHostScanTask {9}' ERROR 2576]  [vciTaskBase, 556] Task execution failed: Configuration of platform error: ERROR: error of integrity!
  Signature 0BFA1C860F0B0A6CF5CD5D2AEE7835B14789B619: keyExpired: B 4789, 619
  ERROR: BundleID: no events / unknown event
  ERROR: File:/var/spool/esxupdate/contents.xml

  I tried:

  -Reinstall UM with new db (sql server)(nothing new)

  -Reinstall ESX (nothing new)

  but the update of ESXi 4.1u1, ESX 3.5 317866 works very well.

  This is because you have not installed the patch ESX350-201012410-BG.

  As stated in the previous post.

  To install the update manually and allow more updates will take place, you must download patch ESX350-201012410-BG of the VMware Web site.

  Unzip and SCP to your ESX host and run the command b ESX350-201012410-BG - nosig one esxupdate update

  There may be a necessary prereq. I must first install ESX350-201012404.

  Same steps as above and updated race esxupdate b ESX350-201012404-BG - nosig

  The switch - nosig does not check if the hash of the file.

  You'll be fine after that.

• Command updating ESX Server 3i, 3.5.0 build #207095

  I have a server ESX 3i, 3.5.0 build from 207095 and I'm trying to update with the latest patch (ESXe350-201302401-O - SG.zip) which I copied to a folder on the local drive:

  "/ vmfs/volumes/OS-Datastore/Patches / '.

  I run the commands:

  «esxupdate install /vmfs/volumes/OS-Datastore/Patches/ESXe350-201302401-O-SG.zip b»

  ... as well as

  "esxupdate install /vmfs/volumes/OS-Datastore/Patches/ESXe350-201302401-O-SG.zip d.

  ... and it is for me to give a new prompt. That means that means and why I can't update my installation?

  I also extracted the original zip file and created these sub zip files:

  "ESXe350-201302401-I - SG.zip".

  "ESXe350-201302401-T - BG.zip" and

  "ESXe350-201302401-C - SG.zip.

  ... I tried the command on them as anything does not.

  How can I get this patch inistalled?

  What is the right syntax?

  Thanks P.A.!

  Your post led me to the answer here:

  VMware KB: Image of ESXi Server 3.5 June 2011 Rollup CD

  I missed an update and for this reason I have to do a clean install as shown in the link above.

  My version can't do any update or update more!

  What you need to know about the key Secure Update *.

  (

  ESXi Server 3.5 June 2011 Rollup CD image (2000593)

  This Installable CD contains ESX Secure Key Update ESXe350-201012401-I-BG.

  For more information about this fix, see Critical Impact: VMware ESXi 3.5, Patch ESXe350-201012401-I-BG: apply this hotfix to continue to apply patches on the ESXi 3.5 hosts after June 2011 (1030002).

  NOTE: If you have not applied this patch by June 1, 2011, you will not be able to then apply patches. To get your updated hosts up-to-date with ESX Server 3i 3.5 version is to apply this Installable CD as new installation. You can also switch to ESXi 4.0 Update 1 Installable.

  Thanks for your suggestions... at least it has led me to the answer.

  A clean install to come!

• Updating ESX to ESXI 5.1 4.1

  We currently use ESX 4.1 and want to upgade ESXI 5.1. Are there instructions available through video upgrade or documentation? Also, how the new licence with respect to the use of memory and CPU in ESXI 5.1. What are the benefits of upgrading to 5.1?

  Thank you

  Scott

  Hi Scott,.

  Check this box:

  http://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/Techpaper/VMware-vSphere-50-upgrade-best-practices-technical-white-paper.PDF

  http://www.VMware.com/files/PDF/Techpaper/VMware-vSphere-50-upgrade-checklists.PDF

  http://KB.VMware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalID=2032757

  In ESXi 5.1, this link will give you a quick way to see license restrictions. Moreover, like a physical processor of rule 1 = 1 license (no carrots or vRAM limitations).

  http://www.VMware.com/products/Datacenter-Virtualization/vSphere/compare-editions.html

  In the advantages, firstly, a change of ESX to ESXi. You will get a smaller and more secure hypervisor.

  Since version upgrade from 4.1 to 5.1, this will depend on what version you have... for example, if you use now 'advantage' you will have "business" in version 5.1 as advantage licenses no longer exist.

  Then you have many new available technologies, better technology HA that uses the heartbeat data store, you have more features such as VSA, vSphere replication, features improved, such as the Protection of the data instead of retrieving data... and the list goes just. Oh, you also have VMFS5 which is more flexible and optimized than VMFS3 (ATS instead of lun level blocks, only 1 block size, the larger capacities of data store, etc. etc.)

  Know that when the upgrade of the service console ports will turn to ports (perhaps you need to enable HA on these manually later). Beware if you are using third party agents that maybe they do not work in the new hypervisor, check your scripts in case you have also some commands no longer exist, no VCB more, Manager update won't let you patch your virtual machines. So, carefully read the upgrade guides

  Best regards and good luck!

  elgreco81

• How to get the updated esx version?

  Hello

  It's easy to get the esx version & build number.

  I use esxupate application command in the service console to get the updated version.

  But is it possible to get the number of minor version (e.g. Update1, Update2) except esxupate query service console command

  It should work

  http://ICT-freak.nl/2009/06/09/PowerCLI-get-ESX-version-info/

• Problems of updating ESX 4.1: definitions of the bulletin in double?

  Hello

  I had some trouble upgrading ESX 4 to ESX 4.1 using the command line and 'upgrade-from-ESX4.0-to-4.1.0-0.0.260247-release.zip '.  The error message that appears is:

  Encountered error MetadataFormatError:

  The error data are:

  Filename - no

  Message - two copies of the bulletin ESX410-GA-esxupdate definitions with

  unmatched attributes.

  Errno - 5

  Description - the format of the metadata is invalid.

  We have already installed "pre-upgrade-from-ESX4.0-to-4.1.0-0.0.260247-release" and tried to re - download a new copy of the update.  Unfortunately, research is turn up nothing on the error message and our feeble attempts to solve the problem have failed!

  Any help is appreciated!

  Thank you

  Grant

  I ended up remove (renamed) a file called bulletins.zip and re-run update esxupdate and complete control. I'm not able to tell the exact path that I am on my iPhone.

  Try "find /-name bulletins.zip" to locate the file, rename it to bulletins.old and then try the esxupdate.

  Paul D. Pindell VCP4

• Updating ESX 3i 5 - how add/detect a USB external storage on the host drive

  I guess that this has been asked several times in the past, but I can't seem to get this to work for me.  All I want to do is use this USB external drive to back up files hard find in my volume of "datastore1".  I would like to implement a script, or even do it manually, where I tell you about my ESXi host just copy the files in VMFS volume in the external USB storage drive.

  My physical server is a Dell PowerEdge 2950, and it uses ESX 3i update 5.  I use a 250 GB Maxtor One Touch II USB external storage device, and it has been formatted with NTFS.

  Currently, I don't even know the controls able to detect this USB device.   I read only so that my drive to be recognized by the host, it must be ext3 or FAT32.  NTFS would be 'read only '.  I was hoping I could format the external drive through the ESXi (by command line), but maybe I'm deceiving myself.

  Thanks in advance

  I'm sorry to say that you are trying is not possible - external USB are not usable by ESXi or ESX =

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• Update esx.conf file

  We have a situation where we have to update the file on all hosts esx.conf...

  The attached sript will first put the server in maintenance mode, run esxcfg-module command using the link and then take the host out of maintenance mode...

  My problem is the change of wil not come into effect until a reboot are happening... So I need the script to reboot the host before taking it out of maintenance mode...

  However I need the host to restart and get out of mainatance mode before putting the host in maintenance mode...

  I've made a few changes.

  (1) inside of the loop where you go through all the ESX servers in the cluster the $_ variable is the purpose of VMHostImpl and the variable $esx is the object of HostSystem.

  I fixed that in the 2 wait loops

  (2) I use the UpdateViewData method to update the property $task.Info.State.

  It is faster than loading the complete task object over and over again.

• Why is so slow to fix (install updates) ESX

  Maybe it's my configuration or maybe it's just a poorly designed packaging system, but someone can tell me why it takes so long to install updates in ESX (3.5 u4)?

  It may take a good 20-30 minutes to install a fix how one of the CPU is located at 100% for most of the time, it happens through all my guests. Surely, it is not intended to be slow so painstakinly.

  Any ideas? Would it be the number of updates, I have in my base? Joel

  Maybe it's my configuration or maybe it's just a poorly designed packaging system, but someone can tell me why it takes so long to install updates in ESX (3.5 u4)?

  I don't know why.  Reclamation is 2 things, it copies ALL of the updates to the ESX directly.  It then retrieves them.  But before he starts, it queries the server known ESX updates, then decides who is applicable, then it installs updates.

  It takes a long time to copy files 120 + (5 GB of files) and then do an inventory, then extract, then install.  You can see the part of the installation in the VI Client, but must see esxtop 'watching' the other process.  Sometimes, it can take an hour to restore, even when there is only 1 or 2 patches to install...

• SCIPT updated ESX (esx.conf) local file on all hosts

  http://communities.VMware.com/thread/199361

  The thread above works well for pulling all the esx hosts log files.

  I have a situtaion where I need to update all the ESX. CONF file on about 50 hosts two clusters...

  Again, I used the plink command, but this time I used the m parameter to pass the sudo commands.

  This is the script I came up with

  Note that the script takes all ESX hosts in a specific data center, but this can easily be changed.

  Also note that if the DRS is not set to "auto", you must boot the vMotions yourself from the VIC.

  The temporary file that I use to pass the command sudo for ESX server can be located somewhere else of course.

  Get-Datacenter  | Get-VMHost | %{
  # Place host in maintenance mode
    $_ | Set-VMHost -State Maintenance
  
  # Execute the esxcfg-module command
    $User = 
    $Pswd = 
    $Computer = $_.Name
    $plink = "D:\UserData\Tools\Putty\plink.exe"
    $cmd1 = 'sudo -u root /usr/sbin/esxcfg-module -s "qlink_down_timeout=30 qlport_down_retry=255 qlogin_retry_count=255 ql2maxqdepth=32" qla2300_707'
    $filename = "temp.txt"
    $cmd1 | Set-Content $filename
    $plinkoptions = " -v -pw $Pswd -m $filename"
    $command = $plink + " " + $plinkoptions + " " + $User + "@" + $computer
    Invoke-Expression -command $command 
  
  # Reboot the server
    $taskMoRef = ($_ | Get-View).ShutdownHost_Task($true)
    $task = Get-View $taskMoRef
    while ($task.Info.State -eq "running" -or $task.Info.State -eq "queued") {$task = Get-View $taskMoRef}
  
  # Place host in connected mode
    $_ | Set-VMHost -State Connected
  }
  

• Updating ESX 3.5? 1 to the current version

  Just a quick question here:

  We currently have 4 servers x ESX 3.5 with their original version (3.5.0,64607), it should update the current update pack.

  Question: can I install the update immediately or must first install V2, V3 (incremental) etc.?

  PS apologies for this announcement, but I'm totally confused after reading previous discussions about this...

  Thank you very much

  NHCdmont

  You can go directly to U3:

  http://www.VMware.com/support/VI3/doc/vi3_esx35u3_rel_notes.html#installation

• Updating ESX 4.0 build 208167 4.1 last. We need to get a new license for this?

  Hello, guys.

  We have a few hosts running ESX 4.0 build 208167.

  He is former generation and it has a large number of vulnerabilities.

  I can't find if we do something with our existing licenses if we upgrade to 4.1 last? ESX will work fine with the old license after that upgrade or we will need to obtain a new license of support?

  Thank you in advance.

  vSphere license keys are provided for major releases, so there shouldn't be the need of another license key.

  André

• Updating ESX to ESXi 4.0

  We are running ESX 4.0 and want to migrate to ESXi. Are there warnings or is it simple enough?

  We would like to eventually get to 5.0, but I think I must go to EXSi 4 first. Fix?

  ESX-ESXi > is not an upgrade.  Its a reinstall full and you need to rebuild each host upgraded from scratch on ESXi.

  However, beyond that, if you know how to configure your hosts, his facts in roughly the same way to the API or GUI - all the same features exist.

• Updating ESX 4.0 to ESX 4.1 Classic classic using ESXUpdate

  People

  Upgrade 2 ESX 4.0 to ESX 4.1 host NICU esxupdate. Several reading upgrade procedures called for the download of the 2 beams to

  the hosts

  Pre-upgrade-from-ESX4.0-4.1.0-0.0.260247-release.zip has.

  B. upgrade-from-ESX4.0-to-4.1.0-0.0.260247-release.zip

  I downloaded the package to upgrade successfully, but I can't find the pre-upgrade beam...

  Can someone help me to find the download for the pre-upgrade bundle?

  Thanks in advance...

  Hello.

  I downloaded the package to upgrade successfully, but I can't find the pre-upgrade beam...

  Where you downloaded the bundle upgrade from?  If I connect to http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_downloads/vmware_vsphere_4/4 two of them are for download.

  Good luck!

• Updating ESX to vSphere 3.5 - disconnect iSCSI SAN?

  Hello

  I need to upgrade a pair of Dell R710s under an iSCSI Equallogic PS4000 SAN to vSphere ESX 3.5, do I need to disconnect the SAN for this? I use the software initiator and am booting from a local storage on the R710s.

  See you soon

  JD

  CompTIA A + network +.

  VMware VCP 3

  Is not necessary. Just enough to get out of the virtual machines (if you want no downtime) and put your ESX in maintenance mode before upgrade.  Remember all first put the virtual centre are! (if you have one)

  vcbMC - 1.0.6 Beta

  Lite vcbMC - 1.0.7

  http://www.no-x.org