Follow the process covered earlier to backup, snapshot, and update the appliance. Figure 20Īs shown in Figure 21, we are at the log-in screen for the vCenter appliance. As shown in Figure 20, there are no issues to resolve. The Pre-Update Checks report if there are any issues we must resolve before updating the vCenter appliance. Select the available update and click Pre-Update Checks from the GENERATE REPORT dropdown list, as shown in Figure 19. We can’t update the vCenter appliance from here, but this allows us to see the available vCenter update information. Figure 17Īs shown in Figure 18, this takes us to the Update Planner. Click VIEW UPDATES, as shown in Figure 17. Figure 16Īt the top of the vCenter page, we see a message that an update for vCenter is available. Figure 16 shows that all hosts are now in compliance. Figure 15Ī post-compliance is automatically run. Figure 15 shows the process for patching the hosts. Figure 14ĭepending on the patches’ requirements and whether any running virtual machines must move to another host or hosts require rebooting, it can take a few minutes to an hour or longer to remediate every host in a cluster. The remediation process begins, as shown in Figure 14. Verify that all six hosts are selected and click REMEDIATE, as shown in Figure 13. Select the just created Baseline and click REMEDIATE, as shown in Figure 12. There are patches in the just created Baseline that do not exist on any of the ESXi hosts. Figure 10Īfter the compliance check completes, as shown in Figure 11, all the hosts are out of compliance. Figure 9Ĭlick CHECK COMPLIANCE, as shown in Figure 10. If any information is not correct, click Back, correct the information and continue. If the information is correct, click FINISH, as shown in Figure 9.
Verify that all the information is correct. Who wants to sift through 700+ patches to determine what applies?Ĭlick Next, as shown in Figure 8. Under Product, scroll down and select embeddedEsx 7.0.*Īfter you make all selections, click Next.Verify that Automatically update this Baseline with patches the match the following criteria is selected.Figure 5Įnter a Name, an optional Description, select Patch, and click Next, as shown in Figure 6. Under Attached Baselines, click ATTACH, and from the dropdown list, click Create and Attach Baseline, as shown in Figure 5. Figure 3Įxpand the Datacenter in the left pane, click on the Cluster, click on Updates in the right pane, and click on Baselines, as shown in Figure 4. Figure 2Ĭlick Menu and click Hosts and Clusters, as shown in Figure 3. Figure 1Įnter the required credentials and click LOGIN, as shown in Figure 2. Click LAUNCH VSPHERE CLIENT (HTML5), as shown in Figure 1. In your internet browser, browse to vCenter.
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We use only the basic patch management capability. Lifecycle Manager offers many features beyond what we need for this article series. In vCenter, VMware introduced Lifecycle Manager. Previous to vCenter 7, VMware used Update Manager to enable centralized patch management for ESXi hosts.
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