kkramer38 wrote:
I have just taken over a virtual environment and need a little help. We have 1 ESXi 4.1 box running 3 VMs. I have just a few questions to get going:
1. How do I know which patches need to be installed on my ESXi box? ( I know how to install them)
2. Do I need to install every ESXi 4.1 patch that comes out, or just specific ones?
If you are not using vCenter, there isn't a way that I'm aware of that is VMware provided to track update compliance.
You can run the command esxcli software vib list to get the version/build number of each of the packages on your system, and compare that to what is available on the VMware site to see if it applies to your system.
I personally do not install anything other than critical and security patches (and the "Complete Update" release bundles, of course).
