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The first thing we need to do is download the offline update bundle from VMware. This can be found in the downloads section of VMware vSphere 6 and making sure you have selected 6.
The latest patch is cumulative. Those of you who stepped in and runs vSphere 6. ESXi 6. Once we download our offline update bundle, we need to extract the contents of the. Upload this folder to a mounted datastore of the target ESXi 6. Once the file is uploaded, we need to connect PowerCLI either to the host directly if unmanaged by vCenter or to vCenter server.
Then we place our host in maintenance mode. We are pointing PowerCLI to the metadata. After a few quick moments, the server should return the update completed successfully, but the system needs to be rebooted. Reboot the host to finalize the update.
There is an offline bundle to update your 6. So you would need to run a couple of offline bundles through using PowerCLI to first get to 6. In a previous post, I wrote about how one can go about patching ESXi from the command line using the esxcli software vib command. This is all well and good when you only have a couple of hosts at hand. What would you do instead when faced with a significant number of hosts you need to update?
One of the features I like most about vCSA 6. The 4-part update process is as follows:. Update Manager comes as a vCenter plug-in which is accessible from a number of places within vSphere Web client. To load it, click on the Update Manger icon from the Home screen or simply select the vCenter Server hostname in Navigator and change over to the Update Manger tab. The interface consists of two main views, Admin and Compliance.
The Compliance view, on the other hand, is where you carry out tasks such as attaching baselines, scanning for applicable updates and remediating. Click on Browse and navigate to the folder where the image is stored. The file will upload as shown in Fig.
The upload progress bar, shows the remaining time and the speed at which the file is being uploaded. To do this, we simply right-click on the image just imported and select Create baseline as shown in Figure 5. Step 5 — Type in a name for the baseline and press OK.
The baseline should now be listed under the Hosts Baselines under Custom as per Fig. The idea now is to attach the baseline to one or more hosts. We then run a compliance check to determine if the upgrade or update is actually required. To do this, one must change over to Compliance view. Just hit the Go to compliance view button at the top-right corner as shown in Fig. The baseline can in fact be attached to a number of objects including a datacenter, cluster or an individual ESXi host.
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