ESX 3.0 Patches

The drawback of ESX 3.0 is the lack of patch management. To update patches in ESX 3.0, there is a utility called esxupdate.

Patches for ESX Server 3.x can be applied in any order on ESX Server 3.0 hots with patch ESX-1000074 and ESX Server 3.0.1 hosts with patch ESX-5874303. Later version of ESX Server will include this fix and will not need a patch.

To get a list of all installed updates, execute this command in the ESX Server console:

esxupdate query

Listing Details of Updates:

esxupdate info
esxupdate -l info

Assume NFS installed on a server
mount –t NFSserver:VMBackup /mnt/updates
esxupdate -r /mnt/updates/updatename update (assume updatename is untar)