In the event that VUM is installed in a secure environment and does not have internet access, you would need to install the Update Manager Download Service (UMDS). The UMDS acts as an intermediary to connect to the internet and download a repository of relevant patches/updates from the VMware portal and services VUM with the repository securely. In the following recipe, we will walk through UMDS installation on a Windows Server.
Installing the Update Manager download service
Getting ready
Ensure that the UMDS server has internet access; this is required to connect to the public VMware portal to retrieve patch/update related information.