We have a new 5.1 farm with a new vCenter 5.1. We installed the VUM and configured it per PDF we found off of VM's site.
Strangely, the new VUM downloaded all updates starting from ESX 4.0, to current.
We can easily delete the obsolete downloads from the repository. However, the Patch Repository still lists the old ones. We can set a filter to only show the correct ones, but I'd like to still delete the old updates from the Patch Repository view.
We stopped the service, deleted the old 4.0, 4.1 and 5.0 updates from disk, modified the XML file and restarted the service, but these old updates still appear in the view for Patch Repository.
We uninstalled VUM, deleted the DB and started from scratch. But in doing it again, we still don't see an option to say "only download applicable updates" or "only download 5.1".
Is there a way to control this behavior?
The other thing we thought was that we would just manually import the zip files but that seems like it goes against the point of an "update manager".
Has anyone else come across this? I opened an incident with support but after 1 email stating "hmmm... not sure if that's possible, lemme get back to you", after 3 days, the support rep hasn't responded back. It's more cosmetic than anything else, but not sure why I would get an Update Manager to list obsolete or not-applicable updates in my view. I assume I am doing something wrong and that this can't be by design.
Thank you.