Hi,
I have a specific Data-center where there is only one host, one cluster so no HA. But there is a vCenter running on that host.
Because i cannot migrate the vCenter i cannot use the update manager to remediate the host.
I was looking at the Staging option to download the patches but i cannot find at all where they have been downloaded, right now the host needs 12 updates 9 of which are staged.
How can i apply the staged patches to the host from the command line?
Thank you.
Hey All,
This may seem like an obvious question but I have noticed that when I do not have my vSphere Client open, the vCenter Update Manager "Check new notifications" and "Download Patch definitions" tasks get queued.
As soon as I open the vSphere Client, which has the VMWare vSphere Update Manager Extension Plugin installed, the queued tasks are processed and cleared.
Since VMWare is "encouraging" us to start using the Web Client, is there a way to setup these tasks so that they can run without having the "fat" vSphere Client running?
Thanks in advance,
Sean
After ruling out corrupt ZIP files, i'm unsure why I can't upload newer versions of the Cisco UCS drivers:
enic-2.1.2.62-esx55-2340678.zip
fnic_driver_1.6.0.12_esx55-2101964.zip
They are downloaded from vmware.com officaly also. I have previous version of these drivers already in the patch list. Is that the issue?
Running newest of everything (patched to max). vCenter 5.5 U2 with latest ESXi hosts and update manager.
Any advice?
We use vShield End Point and Trend Micro Deep Security 9 for vm protection
Can you modify vmware tools to include VMCI Driver and sub contents? (Also takes a reboot)
Then push to selected VM's instead of the manual way. Have about 300 vm's
I am new to VMWare. I have 2 ESXi 5.5 hosts with 2 virtual machines(WS 2008R2) on one and 1 virtual machine(WS2008R2) on the other. I have VMWare VCenter Server installed on one of the windows vms that has the 2 vms. Update Manager is installed on that windows vm also. I do not have centralized storage. These windows vms are production servers. I have never updated these host. They have over 200 updates.
Question: How do I go about updating these host? I know the windows server vms have to be shut down. If I shut down the vm with Update Manager on it, how will it update the host its on? Should I allow every update to update? If not, how do you chose which updates to update. Is there a way to move these vms around when you don't have centralize storage?
I have had these questions out there for 2 days and no one seems to be able to answer them.
Can someone answer this one question: Is it possible to update the ESXi host that vCenter server is install on, with some sort of schedule that will shut down the vms(even the one that vCenter is install on) and put it in to maintenance mode and run the updates on the ESXi host.
Ok, here is how I did it:
I cloned the vm with vCenter Server on it. I put the clone on the other host.
I changed the ip address of the original server before I shut it down. I deleted the dns entry on my dns server that pointed to it and flush the cache.
I booted the clone and change the ip address and rebooted.(It will not let you use the ip address of the original server, it still sees the ip address of that server on the network).
Make sure you give the vCenter Server services enough time to come up before you log on.
You will loose connectivity to the Update Manager Plugin because of the ip address change. Follow these kb articles to fix that-kb 1013222,kb 1014639,2007398. Did not have any trouble with the fixes.
Once you get Update Manager running you can scan and do the update for the host.
You have to do your normal shut down the vms and put in maintenance mode to update.
After that shut down the clone and delete it.
Bring up the original vCenter Server and change the ip and reboot.
I answered this in case someone else runs across this problem.
Hi,
I can't upgrade Update Manager from 5.5.0 u1 to 5.5.0 u2d (maybe it's the same that 5.5.0 u2). The installer start to install after asking the login and failed. I found in the release note of Update Manger u2 that install it on a host that have a SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2 may be a problem. I also have a Backup Exec Server on this host that use a SQL Server 2008 R2 SP2. My VMware database is on SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1.
Here what i found on the release note:
.\redist\SQLEXPR\SQLEXPR_x64_ENU.exe /ACTION=install /IACCEPTSQLSERVERLICENSETERMS /SQLSVCACCOUNT="NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" /HIDECONSOLE /FEATURES=SQL /SQLSYSADMINACCOUNTS="BUILTIN\ADMINISTRATORS" /NPENABLED="1" /TCPENABLED="1" /INSTANCENAME=VIM_SQLEXP
I think the workaround work for new install but do you know what i have to do for an upgrade ?
Hi all,
we have 4 VC appliances that control 4 clusters.
I installed a VUM server for the main site.
I've read some articles that for every VC you need a VUM server.
That is not the big issue. I'm seeing more problems in the fact that all 4 of them will download all the updates.
Is there a way to have a "main" VUM that downloads the updates and the other 3 use the downloads of the first one. A bit like you config WSUS for remote sites.
Thnx!
Tim
I created a lab environment with 2 ESXi hosts (5.5.0) and a vCenter appliance (5.5.0).
I need to perform some tests using Update Manager but I was unable to locate the procedure to install it.
I understood that UM cannot be installed on the vCente Appliance.
I can use a Windows Server 2008 R2 host to host it, but I can't find the procedure...
Can anybody please point to a detailed documentation?
Regards
marius
Hello there,
after i've upgraded my vCenter from 5.1 to 5.5-u2 i cannot download patch definition anymore. Yes, there is a proxy between the vC and the Internet, but the vC can pass the Proxy without any problems. When i click on "Test connection", i get "Internet connection is working proberly. All tested URLs hav been accessed successfully".
Right now i have 3 different download sources:
https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml
https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/csco-main/csco-depot-index.xml
http://vmwaredepot.dell.com/index.xml
As you can see, all of them are accessible and online. My update manager even shows me, that it's online, since in the "Connectivity Status"-Column it says "Connected".
My Proxy-Log shows me, that the Update Manager can access the files, but this:
| 1424435189.603 | 0 **VCENTER-IP** TCP_MEM_HIT/200 9049 GET http://vmwaredepot.dell.com/DEL/DEL-OM-SrvAdmin-7.2.0-ESX-4.1.0-metadata.zip - HIER_NONE/- application/zip |
The file size is 0. "TCP_MEM_HIT" means, that the file already is in the cache of the proxy-server. To make things more strange, i have a lab-domain with two hosts and a vCenter with Update Manager who can download the files.
What i have done so far:
To be clear, this is a Windows Server 2008 R2, it's activated, recent updates, the VMware Infrastructure is licensed and so on.
When I try to install update manager in says that the product can only be installed on a 2008 or later server. This is...
Also receive a message that internal error occurred in vsphere client... unable to connect to the remote server.
I had install update manager on a server which is not longer available.
Long story, but, where update manager had been installed had to be rebuilt. I am now wanting to remove traces of it. When I look in vcenter it still looks as though it is queuing requests to look for udpates. How to stop vcenter from using update manager?
Thanks in advance... this is driving me crazy, I've spent a huge part of my day dealing with this.... thanks again..
I am having an issue with manually importing patches to our Update Manager server. We are using the Air-Gap model as our servers do not have access to the internet. We have followed the instructions in the Installing and Administering VMware vSphere Update Manager 5.5 guide for creating the Oracle 11g database and installing VUM. When I follow the procedures to manually import a .zip file to the repository, in this case ESXi550-201502001.zip, everything goes smooth until I click finish. I get a notification in the Recent Tasks area of vSphere Client that Confirm Importing Offline Patches is in Progress and it stays that way indefinitely. When I check Tasks & Events for the Datacenter I see an error for Host patch offline bundle upload did not succeed about 8 seconds after the task started.
As I follow this process with the VMware-vum-server-log4cpp.log on the VUM server I see the following errors in the screenshot. I have downloaded the patch several times and tried repeatedly, all with the same results. We even deleted the Database schema and did a clean install of VUM. VMware's documentation for this error is very vague and I have not been able to find any article referencing a similar issue. If anyone has any suggestions of where to look for the problem, or hopefully a solution, I would be greatly appreciative of any help.
Thanks,
Jason
In order to keep administration at a minimum, we'd like to use one UM server for many vCenter Server Appliances?
Is this possible, and is it supported?
How can I set VUM to use a specific version of vmware tools for all VM's? I need 9.4.10 on all VM's but VUM seems to use whatever is the next version not the most current even though it downloading version fine.
Hi,
I've installed a Cisco Custom ESXi 5.5 Image in a UCS C220 M3 and i would like to know if i can install the patches using Update Manager as i do with a default image. I'm not sure if i'll have any problems because some patches update the ESXi drivers and could for example overwrite the Cisco enic and fnic.
I know HP and Dell have their repositories that i can use with Update Manager, but cannot find anything like that for cisco.
Thanks
Hi guys,
I tried to install VMware vSphere update manager client 5.1 update 3 to upgrade the old client (5.1 update 2) and keep failing without any visible error. I notice that right after start installing sun java runtime environment the installation fail and the rolling back process start and abort the installation. Did any of you have experience this before? if yes what is the solution.
vCenter 5.1 update 3 Build 2306353
ESXi 5.1.0,2191751
Thanks in advance.
Hi
We have a UMDS Server where we download our patches for 5.5. On this Server we are running IIS and everything appears to be working fine.
However, even though the HTTP Address validates successfully within vCenter Update Manager (running on another Server, no Firewalls between them) when I click 'download new notifications' it appears to be doing something but there are no new notifications/patches uploaded into VUM. What concerned me slightly was I selected only the 5.5 patches to download and they were around 42Gb - seems quite large to me?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I am working with vCenter 6.0 in a TEST/LAB environment to mimic what I plan to do in production at some stage; I completed an in place upgrade from an existing 5.5 update 2 already running VUM on the same windows 2008 r2 virtual server. I have also upgraded the VUM component to 6 and it appears to be working correctly.
What's happening is that at random times I start to received alerts from vCenter Health Service monitoring as per the title of this post with the following detail - 9BED25BE-9530-4445-8A9D-B675904EFE0B_com.vmware.vcIntegrity status changed from gray to green or the other way depending - when I get these alerts I check in the web client and see that the VMware vSphere Extension is listed in the unknown section of the services health, then a little while later it returns to good.
having a look in the c:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Update Manager\Logs folder at the stderrout.log files I can see the following is being logged at around the same time as the alerts are being generated
(actual ip address is replaced with <my server ip>)
2015-04-07 10:15:51.866:WARN:oejh.HttpParser:HttpParser Full for /<my server ip>:9084 <--> /<my server ip>:64118
2015-04-07 10:16:23.124:WARN:oejh.HttpParser:HttpParser Full for /<my server ip>:9084 <--> /<my server ip>:64157
2015-04-07 10:17:25.663:WARN:oejh.HttpParser:HttpParser Full for /<my server ip>:9084 <--> /<my server ip>:64233
2015-04-07 10:18:28.228:WARN:oejh.HttpParser:HttpParser Full for /<my server ip>:9084 <--> /<my server ip>:64332
2015-04-07 10:18:59.498:WARN:oejh.HttpParser:HttpParser Full for /<my server ip>:9084 <--> /<my server ip>:64493
2015-04-07 10:20:02.099:WARN:oejh.HttpParser:HttpParser Full for /<my server ip>:9084 <--> /<my server ip>:64558
2015-04-07 10:21:04.501:WARN:oejh.HttpParser:HttpParser Full for /<my server ip>:9084 <--> /<my server ip>:64668
2015-04-07 10:21:35.798:WARN:oejh.HttpParser:HttpParser Full for /<my server ip>:9084 <--> /<my server ip>:64802
2015-04-07 10:22:37.234:WARN:oejh.HttpParser:HttpParser Full for /<my server ip>:9084 <--> /<my server ip>:64897
2015-04-07 10:23:08.495:WARN:oejh.HttpParser:HttpParser Full for /<my server ip>:9084 <--> /<my server ip>:64958
2015-04-07 10:23:39.737:WARN:oejh.HttpParser:HttpParser Full for /<my server ip>:9084 <--> /<my server ip>:65029
Just wondering if anyone else has seen something similar, or if it is an issue with my installation, or a problem running vcenter server and vum on the same machine? I have reinstalled VUM and restarted the VM with no change to the behaviour; I have checked the performance of the VM and the host and nothing looks out of the ordinary...any ideas?
Hi all,
we're using VMware Essentials Plus Kit. Now I want to update our vSphere ESXi hosts. Unfortunately I can't find Update Manager in vSphere Client when connected to vCenter. See attached screen.
1. Is Update Manager part of Essentials Plus Kit?
2. How can I add Update Manger plugin to my installation?
Thanks for Help.
Hi all, I have a vCenter 5.5 Update Manager which is unable to reach vmware.com
On the firewall we have allow the traffic to the below on port 80 & 443. So far we don't see any traffic blocked, except the connection attempt is incomplete
204.51.149.4
208.91.0.132
On telnet, we are able to successfully telnet most except vmware.com port 443.
I have log 3 cases with vmware support but till now they still insist that it's the firewall that's blocking. Both sites are not loading also on IE & Chrome.
The server's firewall is disabled and no settings on IE LAN settings.
We notice that xml.shavlik.com IP do change to 204.51.149.5, does anyone know the range IP for xml.shavlik.com ?
Please let me know if I miss out anything on troubleshooting