I've been upgrading our ESX hosts to the latest version. From ESX 4.1 to ESX 4.1 U1 (Update 1), its been a little more complicated than i'd like, but here are the strange things i've found. Note this is performing the upgrade using VUM (VMWare Update Manager). Downloading The Update Finding the correct package to download is the first problem. As we are upgrading from ESX 4.1 to ESX 4.1 U1 (Update 1) we need to get the package called: update-from-esxi4.1-4.1_update01.zip from the VMWare website. Easiest way to find it is to search for the above on the vmware site and you should find it no problems, details of the upgrade paths can be found here: http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_esx41_u1_rel_notes.html Next the Problem with the Package and Updating the Hosts Once the package is created, you create the baseline and then attach it to the hosts, and I got the frustrating and worrying "incompatable" error message, see below: Investigating the error from the release notes I found this: http://www.vmware.com/support/vsphere4/doc/vsp_esx41_u1_rel_notes.html#installation Click on the “Title, Product, Type”, and tick “Vendor ID”, then type in the box: ESX410-201101203 select and click the down arrow on the patch we want to install. Once the patch has been applied, I reattached the upgrade (4.1 to 4.1 U1) baseline and scanned, now I am seeing "Non-compliant" which is what I should expect, then its just a case of upgrading (remeadiate) all the hosts and rebooting them all. http://communities.vmware.com/thread/303119 |
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