Using baselines and baseline groups
Baselines are a collection of patches, service packs, bug fixes, extensions, or upgrades that you want to be installed on your ESXi hosts. Baselines can be of one of the following types:
- Host patch
- Host extension
- Host upgrade
- VA upgrade
The VA upgrade type is for the upgrade of virtual appliances.
Baselines can be fixed or dynamic. A fixed baseline remains the same, even if new patches are added to the repository. Dynamic baselines are automatically updated when new patches are added to the repository.
During the installation of vSphere Update Manager, some baselines are already created:
- Critical Host Patches (Predefined)
- Non-Critical Host Patches (Predefined)
- VA Upgrade to Latest (Predefined)
- VM Hardware Upgrade to Match Host (Predefined)
- VMware Tools Upgrade to Match Host (Predefined)
All of the predefined baselines are dynamic.
You can create additional baselines to specify which patches must be installed. You can create fixed or dynamic baselines. You can specify...
