Scenario 15

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Scenario:

You are responsible ensuring that all the ESXi hosts in a large vSphere environment are kept up-to-date on patches and updates. You use VMware Update Manager (VUM) to facilitate the update process. All of your ESXi hosts are running ESXi 5.0 or later. You reply on the Update Manager Download Service (UMDS) to automatically download updates from the Internet.

Requirements:

Environment Information:

VDCA510 Objective: 5.2 Deploy and Manage Complex Update Manager Environments
VDCA550 Objective: 5.2 Utilize Update Manager for Patches and Upgrades

Guide Reference(s):

 

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Solution

Log in to Windows as an administrator on the UMDS Server and issue these commands:

cd \program files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\Update Manager
vmware-umds –S –enable-host –disable-va
vmware-umds –S –d esx-4.0.0 embeddedEsx-4.0.0