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• I have a question about the ESXi upgrade using Update Manager...

  This is probably a stupid question, but I've never played and update ESXi using Update Manager.  We need to update ESXi ESXi 4.1 4.1 servers before vCenter 5.0 U1 from U2 (there is a known issue where the ESXi 4.1 servers receive the GROUP after upgrading vCenter to 5.0 U1).  We used HP ESXi image to install ESXi on our servers for new installations.  This image contains ESXi.1 U2 as well as the drivers of HP and CIM.

  4.1_U2_Oct_2011_ESXi_HD - USB-SDImgeInstlr_Z7550 - 00241.iso

  Can this same image HP ESXi 4.1 U2 that we used to install to new ESXi servers, be used to upgrade our 4.1 4.1 U2 ESXi servers using the Update Manager?  Or, upgrade package should be used for the upgrade?  Also, if an upgrade package must be used, is it OK to use one provided by VMware, or will be losing our HP specific drivers and CIM to do this?

  Thank you

  Hello

  You can import custom HP ESXi 4.1 U2 ISO in Update Manager (don't forget to use the latest version of June 2012, available here: https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=HPVM06) and update the hosts with her.

  In a second step, you can then import the last custom HP ESXi ISO 5.0 (available here: https://h20392.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=HPVM09) and update the hosts again with her.

  To be on the current ESXi 5.0 patch level you finally apply the latest patches from VMware via the Update Manager.

  -Andreas

• VM upgrade with Update Manager - how to tie yourself to the base line of tools

  I'm upgrading from the tools of Virtual Machines on one of our servers ESX - ESX8.

  There are several virtual machines (10-20). I tried to reach the default baseline provided with vSphere (VMware Tools upgrade to Match) on the ESX Server and the VMware tools to upgrade, to Match database does not appear.

  The vShpere update #2 video series shows the user using a folder it created in the virtual machine and discovers patterns with all virtual machines of Xp in a folder.

  He joined upgrade VMware tools to Match base and scans and corrects all Xps.

  If I go to the virtual machine and view models and I see short folder Vms, VMs, templates, etc.

  But the associated virtual machines seem to be in alphabetical order and not in an order that associates them with ESX8.

  If I create a folder under the folder open VMs and try to move the virtual machines associated with ESX8 in the folder, it does not work.

  I even tried to create a new database and tried to add to the game, but always VMware tools upgrade not can link it to the host.

  Is there a way to get the Update Manager to work at the level of the host with the host ESX8, so I can join VMware Tools upgrade ESX8 game database and update tools?

  Otherwise, the update of all virtual machines manually by connecting the base to each line take very long.

  Thank you

  Create your custom (depending on model and VM) folder, move the virtual machine and fix the base line here.

  André

• ESXi upgraded via Update Manager can now access data store.

  I had an old (Dell Optiplex GX620) office that was running ESXi 3.5 U1 maybe? (It was installed just after the big deal on the closing date set for esxi).  He had a store of data on SATA drive mount, which worked very well.

  After updating to the latest version of ESXi through Update Manager, he can no longer see theVM on the data store...

  I get a warning that says "VMware ESX Server has no persistent storage", but when I look at the disk in the storage of the configuration tab section, he clearly ShowAs seen a VMFS to 144 GB partition.  When I have the Browse, it seems to show a few newspapers files and nothing else.

  Is it possible to return these VM?

  They are not critical, but it would be good to know how to save files from a VMFS partition...

  Welcome to the forums.

  Same thing happened to me when I updated to ESXi 3.5 U3.

  The ICH7 chipset is now supported differently.

  You will need to edit the oem.tgz file to include the Intel ICH7.

  Here's what I did to solve the problem.

  http://communities.VMware.com/message/1104964#1104964

  See you soon,.

  Jase

  Jase McCarty

  http://www.jasemccarty.com

  Co-author of VMware ESX Essentials in the virtual data center

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• Problem with upgrade after upgrade to vCenter Update Manager

  I've just updated vCetner to 5 and went to upgrade the Update Manager, but the installer says that it cannot connect to the DB.

  The DSN is ok and starts the current updatemanager server.

  Any ideas what could casue that?

  vCenter is a 2008 R2 VM.

  See you soon

  Do you use the 32-bit DSN?

  %systemdrive%\Windows\SysWoW64\Odbcad32.exe
  

• 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

• Update Manager Upgrade to 5.5.0 u2b has failed

  Hello!

  Version of update 5.5.0.19906 to 5.5.0 U2b Manager upgrade failed with the Error Message: "the Server vCenter is incompatible with the vSphere Vmware Update Manager you install.» Please select a compatible Server vCenter. »

  The upgrade of the vCenter Server works very well. I also found in the log files:

  [installerRunVCCommand, 379]  [VCSERVER] vc = 5.5.0, version version install supported = 5.5.0, version of the api to install supported VC installation brackets 5.5.0, = build number > = 1883858

  [11-11-2014 14:32:58:176 "DEBUG 13184]  [installerRunVCCommand, 288]  Return code [VCSERVER] version check vc = 103

  [11-11-2014 14:32:58:176 "DEBUG 13184]  [installerRunVCCommand, 349]  Return code [VCSERVER] = 103 check vc.

  Thank you much for the help

  Manfred

  You are welcome

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• Update Manager upgrade of the ESXi host that he is running in a virtual machine does

  That is the question.  Here is some information.  We were a completely virtualized environment for several years.  2 guests ESXi collocated 5.5 to different data centers connected of course by a VPN site-to site.  The VPN itself is provided by VMs and vCenter runs in a VM to one of the sites as Update Manager is to proceed with installing it. If the vCenter and/or VPN VMs are down, we have a very cool backup method to gain access to and manage ESXi and its console.   Some of you who read the rest of the present will be tempted to suggest to architecting our environment differently, but we are very pleased with the way it is thank you very much :-)  Appreciate all the answers but really just responded to this specific question.

  The reason why we want to Update Manager is really just to be able to upgrade easily ESXi in the future without enter in the console and the execution of orders, etc.  I realize the documentation and blogs on this topic that ESXi may need to go into maintenance mode and stop the virtual machines running on it (not a cluster if no migration) how ESXi is lose connection to the Update Manager (if the remote host) or a stop Update Manager (if the local host).  So the question is, is that the process of updating managed by Update Manager an atomic operation at that crucial moment or a sequence of operations depend on continuous connectivity and control of Update Manager.  Ddoes ESXi, then perform the upgrade and restart regardless - that would be great - or he'll just stand there in maintenance mode to learn more about disconnected now / stop Manager update pending.

  Your answers are greatly appreciated.

  Please, tell me if I understand you:

  Ask yourself if you can upgrade the host running Update Manager VM? And you cannot migrate the virtual to another host machine because there is no cluster in place and no shared storage?

  If your answer is YES to both questions, I can tell you that you cannot use Update Manager, since you must put your host in Maintenance Mode and therefore you will need to stop all virtual machines running, including the VM Manager Update.

• upgrade to esxi 5.1 to 5.5 by using Update Manager

  Hi I tried to upgrade the ESXI 5.1 to 5.5

  I myself vcenter all done with the Update Manager, but I get this error when I import the image:

  exception of 5.5 web VMware update manager

  How can I fix it.

  Thank you.

  Nathan Saunders.

  VMware KB: Download Update Manager Operation fails with the error: a web exception has occurred during the upload of a file

  It will be useful.

• Unable to upgrade to or install Update Manager 5.1.0 Update 2

  Hello

  I have Update Manager 5.1 update 1 installed and working. I've just updated the server vcenter to 5.1.0 Update 2 and now trying to upgrade the VUM to also update 2. During the upgrade it kept failing on the login screen of vCenter vCenter Server username and password entered is not recognized. Now the account works, I logged onto the server vCenter as this account and can connect on the client vSphere under this account. The account is an administrator of vCenter.

  I could not upgrade to work so decided to completely uninstall VUM and reinstall it again with the update 2 version, but I get exactly the same error. I don't know where to go with this. I tried located accounts but no joy. I get the following in the vminst.log: -.

  VMware Update Manager-build-1471702: 18/02/14 11:01:56 - start logging.

  VMware Update Manager-build-1471702: 18/02/14 11:01:56 - CA exec: VMValidateVCServerInfo

  VMware Update Manager-build-1471702: 18/02/14 11:01:56 getting property VC_SERVER_IP = 192.xxx.xxx.xxx

  VMware Update Manager-build-1471702: 18/02/14 11:01:56 getting property VC_SERVER_PORT = 80

  VMware Update Manager-build-1471702: 18/02/14 11:01:56 set property VC_SERVER_ADMIN_USER = domain\username

  VMware Update Manager-build-1471702: 18/02/14 11:01:56 getting property TEMP_DIR = C:\Users\SVC_VC~1\AppData\Local\Temp\

  VMware Update Manager-build-1471702: 18/02/14 11:01:56 AppendPath::done path: C:\Users\SVC_VC~1\AppData\Local\Temp\vum

  VMware Update Manager-build-1471702: 18/02/14 11:01:56 order validation VC: ["v 192.171.185.107 Pei 80 - U 'domain\username' Pei *-C"C:\Users\SVC_VC~1\AppData\Local\Temp\vum\' L-'C:\Users\SVC_VC~1\AppData\Local\Temp\\' vcversion - O""]

  VMware Update Manager-build-1471702: 18/02/14 11:01:56 AppendPath::done path: C:\Users\SVC_VC~1\AppData\Local\Temp\vum\vciInstallUtils.exe

  VMware Update Manager-build-1471702: 18/02/14 11:01:56 found "C:\Users\SVC_VC~1\AppData\Local\Temp\vum\vciInstallUtils.exe".

  VMware Update Manager-build-1471702: 18/02/14 11:02:01 process returned 102

  VMware Update Manager-build-1471702: 18/02/14 11:02:01 error: VC username and password entered is incorrect

  VMware Update Manager-build-1471702: 18/02/14 11:02:01 get the property UILevel = 5

  VMware Update Manager-build-1471702: 18/02/14 11:02:01 updated property ProductName = vSphere VMware Update Manager

  Interestingly, since the upgrade to vCenter 5.1 update 2, our Veeam VM backups started failing. It is said the service account used to connect to vcenter can no longer do. I think that I now have a vCenter problem rather than with single update manager. Of course, I can live without Manager Update for awhile, but not without our Veeam backup.

  Any ideas?

  Thank you

  Janine

  As a result, we actually had major problems with authentication of domain vCenter. All 3rd party plugins did not exist to authenticate (including our Veeam backup) which makes it a little more serious. We could however connect you if one account local existence on the server vCenter himself. We could log on to the server vCenter as a domain account (which is a member of the Administrators group) and then launch the vSphere client, choosing to use "windows session credentials. If we typed in a user and a password that he will not allow you to connect.

  We then looked at logging on to the web client that has failed with an error similar to the following: -.

  The authentication server has returned an unexpected error: ns0:RequestFailed: internal error during the creation of SAML 2.0 token. The error can be caused by a source of identity with a malfunction.

  We could however login to the web client as admin@System-Domain to display the UNIQUE Admin authentication settings and make the necessary changes.

  So we knew now that it was more a problem of SSO. Knowledge base articles has made the removal of the source of the local identity that we were not happy in doing so, we placed a call with VMware. VMware response was to deploy a VAPP 5.5 vCenter to see if version 5.5 of SSO can fix this (we run 5.1), we could go SSO to 5.5. Also, we were not satisfied with this response as the new VAPP and SSO version probably would work it would be a clean install. He has not proved that the exsiting SSO to 5.5 upgrade does not have the same problem.

  We started trawling through the logs and noticed that there are errors in connection to DCs in a trusted domain (us authenticate not to all accounts etc. in this trusted domain). The trusted domain has been listed as a source of identity in the web client, we decided to remove the domain from the list of sources of identity (after consultation with VMware that said that we could remove it but he wouldn't do anything). We do not think it would work, but it did! We discovered since AD team that there were some problems with the trust between our domain and the other domain and we can only think that after restarting the server vCenter for 5.1 installation update 2 that he then picked up on these issues.

  Just thought this may be helpful to anyone experiencing similar problems.

• Update Manager fails during upgrade from 5.0 to 5.5 ESXi host.

  Nice day

  I am trying to upgrade to 5.0 and 5.5 ESXi host using Update Manager. However, when I scan my host I get incompatible error. When I click Details I get the error "unsupported configuration.

  Update Manger newspapers show that SANE_ESX_CONF is not in the host logs see below:

  [11-01-2013 13:40:18:219 'HostUpgradeScanner' 3544 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 473] PRECHECK script test result: "SUCCESS", the planned test of "PRECHECK_INITIALIZE", "version esx.conf" found "version esx.conf".

  [11-01-2013 13:40:18:219 'HostUpgradeScanner' 3544 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 473] PRECHECK script test result: 'SUCCESS', 'SUPPORTED_ESX_VERSION', wait 4 5' found '5'

  [11-01-2013 13:40:18:219 'HostUpgradeScanner' 3544 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 473] PRECHECK script test result: "SUCCESS, test 'SPACE_AVAIL_ISO', expected '347872773', '347872773'.

  [11-01-2013 13:40:18:219 'HostUpgradeScanner' 3544 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 473] PRECHECK script test result: "SUCCESS, test 'MEMORY_SIZE', expected '4261412864', '34357448704'.

  [11-01-2013 13:40:18:219 'HostUpgradeScanner' 3544 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 473] PRECHECK script test result: "SUCCESS, test 'HARDWARE_VIRTUALIZATION', expected '3', 3'.

  [11-01-2013 13:40:18:219 'HostUpgradeScanner' 3544 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 473] PRECHECK script test result: "SUCCESS, test 'CPU_CORES', expected '2', 4'.

  [11-01-2013 13:40:18:219 'HostUpgradeScanner' 3544 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 473] PRECHECK script test result: "SUCCESS, test ' 64BIT_LONGMODESTATUS', wait 1', found 1' «»

  [11-01-2013 13:40:18:219 'HostUpgradeScanner' 3544 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 473] PRECHECK script test result: ' SUCCESS, 'NXBIT_ENABLED', '1' expected, found test 1'.

  [11-01-2013 13:40:18:220 'HostUpgradeScanner' 3544 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 473] PRECHECK script test result: 'ERROR', 'SANE_ESX_CONF', expected 'True' to test, found 'False. '

  [11-01-2013 13:40:18:220 'HostUpgradeScanner' 3544 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 473] PRECHECK script test result: 'SUCCESS', the test plan "UNSUPPORTED_DEVICES", ", found"

  [11-01-2013 13:40:18:221 'HostUpgradeScanner' 3544 INFO]  [scannerImpl, 473] PRECHECK script test result: 'ERROR', 'PACKAGE_COMPLIANCE', test

  I tried to reboot the host but still no luck. the search file is the esx.conf file. When I ssh host I find the file here.

  Any help/thoughts is appreciated.

  Thank you!

  -Ali

  Give UUID uppercase. This is not the result we are looking for. It should give the UUID or raise an error.

  Review the allocation of points for answers useful/correct

• How upgrade vcenter 5.0 5.0 Update 2 without Update Manager

  How upgrade vcenter 5.0 5.0 Update 2 without as Vcenter Update Manager is not up

  Maybe I'm missing something, but you should be able to install vCenter 5.0 Update 2 installation image.

  I'm still not sure that understand your problem with Update Manager. Update Manager does not update vCenter Server support, this must be done manually.

  André

• Cannot use upgrade Update Manager to ESX 4.0 Update 1

  We use vCenter 4.0. There are combinations of update4 ESX 3.5 and ESX ESX 4.0 host update1. I intend to upgrade to host ESX 3.5 update 4 ESX 4.0 update1.   I use ESX 4.0 update 1 DVD ISO Picture, when I try to create a baseline for the upgrade of the host, I get the following error.  It is said "impossible to import upgrade, upgrade version is not supported by this version fo Vmware VCenter update manager. I know that I can directly connect to ESX 3.5 and run the esxupdate or boot ESX 4.0 update DVD and perform the upgrade. I wonder why cann't Update Manager? We know the right answer?

  

  Just a guess.

  As you try to download the update of ESX 1, I guess that your vCenter Server is already on the update 1.

  If so you can update manager to update to version 4.0 Update 1 Patch 2.

  Release notes: see http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_vum_40u1_p2_rel_notes.html

  Download: http://downloads.vmware.com/d/details/vum40u1p2/ZHcqYmRwaCViZGUlaA==

  André

• upgrade esx 4.0 to esx 4.1 with Update Manager

  I'm trying to update the host esx 4.0 to esx 4.1.  The documentation I've read says that you can do this with the Update Manager in vCenter server.  I'm new to vmware/esx/vCenter esx and has just installed 4 a few months ago.  I'm following the instructions contained in the vCenter Update Manager Administration Guide.  I've already updated vCenter Server 4.1 and the guide is for version 4.1.  Top of page 90, say the instructions open the Update Manager and then choose the tab that says "host upgrade releases.  I don't see this as an option.  When I open the Update Manager, I see the following tabs: Getting Started, baselines and groups, Configuration, events, repository of Patch and that's it.  What Miss me?  I've read about this update 4.1 since last week and followed the 4.0 to 4.1 upgrade guide.  I want to download the upgrade zip I have download VMware but have no idea how to get it in the Update Manager.  Help, please.

  Thank you

  Kristi

  Which version of the Update Manager are you using? He should be in 4.1 to 4.0 to 4.1 ESX hosts improving

• 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.