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VMware vSphere 5.5 Essentials

You're reading from   VMware vSphere 5.5 Essentials Efficiently virtualize your IT infrastructure with vSphere

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784398750
Length 228 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Introduction to VMware vSphere FREE CHAPTER 2. VMware vCenter Server 3. Creating Virtual Machines 4. Managing Virtual Network 5. Network Virtualization with VMware NSX 6. Managing Virtual Storage 7. Working with VSAN 8. Managing Virtual Machines 9. Resource Management and Performance Monitoring 10. Incorporating vSphere High Availability, Fault Tolerance, and DRS 11. Securing and Updating vSphere 12. vSphere 6.0 Overview Index

Getting started with vSphere Update Manager


vSphere Update Manager (vUM) is used as a centralied, automated patch and version management. It is intended to be used along with VMware ESX/ESXi hosts and can be used to:

  • Apply updates to ESXi hosts

  • Upgrade ESXi hosts

  • Update virtual machine's VMware Tools software

  • Upgrade virtual machine's virtual hardware version

  • Update VMware appliances

Unlike other vCenter Server add-ons, vUM is not yet fully integrated into vSphere Web Client. It only offers the possibility to scan ESX/ESXi hosts and list their patch compliance. For using the full feature set, you need to use the vSphere legacy client.

vUM downloads the list of available and relevant patches to your virtual infrastructure from www.vmware.com. This task is executed daily to ensure continuous availability of the most recent patches. Before patching ESXi hosts, patches are staged and virtual machines are moved to other cluster nodes to ensure availability. Using vUM, administrators are also able...

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