Cannot remediate host because of HA
Hi, Using vCenter 5.1 u1 and ESXi hosts 5.1 u1I want to patch my ESXi hosts for the first time so it may be something in the setup but.... I would not know what. The whole setup was done by someone who...
View ArticleUpdate Manager - vCSA.
Little confused. I'm running vCenter appliance 6.0 and deploying Update Manager . After reading few blogs it talks about having two update manager servers. One for Download service and one for Update...
View Articleupdate manager ignoring exclusion
Recently tried patching some esi hosts on 5.5 update to with critical only patches.After the patching the servers lost communication with vcentre (I discovered the reason vmware esi 5.5 complete update...
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we have vcenter update manager 5.5 and we havent internet connection on server. now how to update to hosts without internet. is there ant good way for solve this problem
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there are 100 vm in an cluster ( esxi 5.5) vmware tools running out of date on all vm. now can i update with vcenter update manager to all vmtools. some vms are linux some vms are windows so i dont...
View ArticleTrying to use Functional account to startup VMware Update Manager 5.0
I'm trying to use a Functional account to startup VMware Update Manager 5.0 with external SQL database. When I try to start up Update Manager Service with this new account I get the following error:...
View ArticleUpdate Manager with multiple vCenter Server instances
Just that really - if I have (for example) two vCenter Server instances, can they be managed by a single Update Manager server? Just for some background - I'm looking at using the VCSA (appliance) to...
View ArticleVUM 6.0 ignoring proxy settings.
Morning All, Hoping someone can help with an issue I am experiencing with VUM 6.0 (Installed from the VMware-VIMSetup-all-6.0.0-3040890.iso image) - The problem in a nutshell is that for some reason it...
View ArticleHelp: Update Manager 5.1 is not visible at Primary site!
Hi,At our VMware environment, I have two sites - Primary and Secondary. When I was working to update the Host profiles, I logged into Update Manager. The moment I logged in, the Update Manager...
View ArticleError installing vCenter Update Manager
Hello, I am relatively new to the vCenter system. I haave an ESXi host and have installed the vCenter server and vSphere Client. I am trying to install the vVenter Update Manager and it goes through...
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Hi, I am having issues installing new patches via update manager, what I am trying to do is to get USB3 working by installing the October patch and I thought this would be simple via update manager. I...
View Articleupdate manager not connecting to database and timeout error 443
Hi All, During maintenance activity, we had to reboot vCenter server 5.1, and after rebooting we see the below error, we did try couple of resolutions from the VMware KB articles and found the issue...
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VMware Update Manager strange error
hi alli got error in vcenter server version 6vmware vsphere update manager had an unknown error check the events and log files for detailwhen vcenter wants to discover virtual appliance it gives an...
View ArticleUpdate manager 6.0 support with vmware vcenter 6.0 using Windows Server...
Hi, I cannot find statement from VMware regarding Update Manager 6.0 support with vCenter 6.0 that installed with WSFC. Document that I have found discussing vCenter only but how about the Update...
View ArticleInstalling Update Manager 5.5.0b Cannot see the DataBase
Hi, Due to issues I was unaware of, our previous Update Manager no longer worked. I did the foolish thing and uninstalled Update Manager in preperation of Installing the new version. from what I have...
View ArticleVMware Update Manager Download Service question
We have installed and configured VMware Update Manager Download Service which work fine for downloading patches and extensions. To this repo we have connected several vcenter servers. vCenter and...
View ArticleCan VUM Scan a host when a cluster is not healthy?
I have an 8 ESXi vmware cluster. the 8th server is currently offline to vCenter because hostd will not stay started. I have a case open with VMWare on this. Because of this my VMWare cluster is not...
View ArticleVUM Patch Repository
Hello guys,can I prevent my VUM from downloading patches for older vsphere versions? I only need V6 patches.Can I delete the older patches and Appliance Updates from the repository? Many thanks in advance
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Update Manager not available in WebClient
Hi all,i'm quite new to vsphere infrastrcture.I installed Update manager and the plugin is installed and working in vSphere Client but the plugin is not present in vSphereWebClient.In WebClient the...
View ArticleUpdate Manager Base Line export and Import
Hi, We are upgrading vSphere Infrastructure from 5.1 to 6.0, part of which we have fresh installed the 6.0 VUM and vCenters. But the issue is how do we take (export) all the existing baselines which...
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