Select Install this certificate… and click ignore. This screen displays some information about the ESXi 5 image. Select Create a baseline using the ESXi image. Type a name for the baseline, such as ESXi 5 Upgrade and a description if you like. Click Finish. Click on Compliance View at the top right hand side. Select the ESXi 4 host that you wish to upgrade and then click Attach at the top right hand corner.
Click Attach. Click on Scan at the top right hand side. Select Upgrades and then click Scan. The upgrade may be marked as incompatible but you can still proceed. If the upgrade is marked as incompatible you will be able to click on Upgrade Details. Some software modules will be removed. Check to see that these are not needed as they will be removed once the host is upgraded to ESXi 5. Click Close. Click on Remediate. Make sure your Upgrade Basline is selected. Select I accept the terms and license agreement.
I prefer to attach them to vSphere clusters, but you can also attach them at the Datacenter or individual ESXi host level.
No matter which way you decide to do this, it is a key step of the ESXi update process. Click the vSphere cluster in Hosts and Clusters View. In the right pane, click Updates. Remember I said there were many ways to get to Update Manager?
We are almost ready to update ESXi! Now, select the baseline you have previously created, I named mine vSphere 6. Click OK. You could also upgrade ESXi 6. To do this, you would follow the same steps in your vSphere 6. The method is identical other than your starting point. As you can see, my host is running ESXi 6.
Now we are going to get this host running the latest and greatest version of VMware vSphere! Remediate is a nice way of saying make sure our host is compliant with its attached baseline. In this case, clicking the button is what will actually update ESXi. After we click accept the EULA, we will see exactly what is about to get upgrade in our environment.
Now, we simply click OK and off our hosts go! They will now be updated to ESXi 6. Now is a good time to step away and get a nice beverage while your ESXi environment upgrades itself.
As you can see, our upgrade has been successful and we are now running ESXi 6. You will also see it is complaint with the attached baseline. This is another way of showing it is now running ESXi 6. You are now running the latest version of VMware vSphere.
I hope you are reading this article before you perform your upgrade, because there are a number of things to think about before hand. As I mentioned, it is important to make sure your environment is compatible with vSphere 6. In addition, a vSphere upgrade can also be an opportunity to fix some things in your environment that may not be optimal. Click Refresh to check the cluster status. After Update Manager is finished applying patches to all nodes in the cluster, the status will be updated to show that they are compliant with our chosen patch baseline.
VMware vSphere 6. By default, there are no baselines attached to a cluster. Since we are using precreated baselines we will proceed to attach those baselines to the host for remediation. As we already have existing baselines, we will choose the option to Attach Baseline or Baseline Group.
If we needed to create a custom baseline, we can choose the option to Create and Attach Baseline. Once all baselines have been selected we will proceed to choose Attach to associate them with our ESXi host. The next thing we need to do is Check Compliance of our host against Update Manager. Check Compliance does a check of currently installed patches, updates and upgrades installed on the ESXi host against what is within the Attached Baselines and Baseline Groups.
If there are any missing patches, upgrades or updates the object will be in a Non-Compliant state. Once the Scan is complete, we can see the status of the Compliance check.
We can see that this host as 57 patches that need to be applied with 8 critical and 3 security fixes. Let's minimize the Recent tasks to proceed. A new feature in 6. This will detect and issues that may stop your remediation from completing successfully. Let's run the Pre-Check Remediation and see the results.
Our Remediation Pre-Check has passed, as we have no outstanding issues. Any errors that could impact remediation would be shown here such as DRS being disabled or attached removable media devices. Lets close the Remediation Pre-Check to proceed. We are now ready to proceed with Remediation. Lets select All baselines we wish to apply to our host. During Remediation the Pre-Check Remediation will also run if you did not manually choose it before.
We have a few options below so let's explore them, starting with seeing which updates we are installing. If we expand out the Install Updates, we can see all updates that will be applied to this object. The next section will cover whether or not you wish to remediate the object immediately or schedule for a future date or time. If you choose to modify the scheduling options you can create a scheduled task to remediate the object at a later date or time.
If you uncheck the option it will run immediately. Let's review the remediation settings. Within this screen we can see the remediation options that have been chosen, these are configured at the vCenter Server level, so if you wish to modify them you need to Close Dialog and Go to Settings.
Please note new features introduced with 6. Consult the Release Notes and Documentation for more information on these features. During an Update Manager remediation, if a host is not already in maintenance mode the first step is to put that host into maintenance mode, moving all running virtual machines to another host within the cluster.
Once the host is put into maintenance mode, Update Manager will automatically Install the updates and reboot the host. When remediation is complete, a Check Compliance scan is automatically ran and the host will be removed from maintenance mode. Our remediation is now complete as our host is in Compliance with all the attached baselines.
For more information and walkthroughs please view our VMware Blogs. This eliminates the time-consuming device initialization and self-testing procedures, shortening the time required to patch or upgrade a host.
Downloading virtual appliance upgrades, host patches, extensions, and related metadata is a predefined automatic process that you can modify. By default, at regular configurable intervals, Update Manager contacts VMware or third-party sources to gather the latest information metadata about available upgrades, patches, or extensions.
Downloading information about all updates is a relatively low-cost operation in terms of disk space and network bandwidth. The availability of regularly updated metadata lets you add scanning tasks for hosts or appliances at any time. Update Manager supports the recall of patches for hosts that are running ESXi 5. A patch is recalled if the released patch has problems or potential issues. After you scan the hosts in your environment, Update Manager alerts you if the recalled patch has been installed on a certain host.
Recalled patches cannot be installed on hosts with Update Manager. Update Manager also deletes all the recalled patches from the Update Manager patch repository. After a patch fixing the problem is released, Update Manager downloads the new patch to its patch repository.
If you have already installed the problematic patch, Update Manager notifies you that a fix was released and prompts you to apply the new patch. If Update Manager cannot download upgrades, patches, or extensions — for example, if it is deployed on an internal network segment that does not have Internet access — you must use UMDS to download and store the data on the machine on which UMDS is installed.
You can configure Update Manager to use an Internet proxy to download upgrades, patches, extensions, and related metadata. You can change the time intervals at which Update Manager downloads updates or checks for notifications.
You can import offline bundles and host upgrade images from a local storage device into the local Update Manager repository. This message will close in seconds. You are about to be redirected to the central VMware login page. After specifying a baseline name, verifying the ESXi image, and reviewing the details, click "Finish" Confirm Upgrade Baseline After creating the upgrade baseline, verify that it is listed on the Baselines tab.
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