I am running only ESX 6.0 in my environment and I noticed that Update Manager downloads patches for multiple versions of ESX.
I am wondering if there is a way to exclude patches for older versions. I found this in the vci-integrity.xml file:
-<contentSettings>
<hostInclude id="0001">embeddedEsx-5.0.0-INTL</hostInclude>
<hostInclude id="0002">embeddedEsx-5.1.0-INTL</hostInclude>
<hostInclude id="0003">embeddedEsx-5.5.0-INTL</hostInclude>
<hostInclude id="0004">embeddedEsx-6.0.0-INTL</hostInclude>
<hostUpdateEnabled>true</hostUpdateEnabled>
<vaUpgradeEnabled>true</vaUpgradeEnabled>
</contentSettings>
If I remove the lines for the first three versions, will it download only the patches for esx 6.0 or will I break something?
Being the incredibly impatient person that I am, I went ahead and changed the vci-integrity.html file located in "<DriveLetter>:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\Update Manager" to the following:
-<contentSettings>
<hostInclude id="0001">embeddedEsx-6.0.0-INTL</hostInclude>
<hostUpdateEnabled>true</hostUpdateEnabled>
<vaUpgradeEnabled>true</vaUpgradeEnabled>
</contentSettings>
After editing the file, I restarted the VMware vSphere Update Manager Service and initiated a download of patches through the client. This seems to have successfully limited the downloads to only version 6.0.