Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of VMwareESX350Patches


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  • VMwareESX350Patches

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     2== Installing Patches for VMware ESX 3.5 Update 5 ==
     3
     41. Download the contents.zip file.
     5
     6{{{
     7$ wget -q http://download3.vmware.com/software/esx/ESX-3.5.0-contents.zip
     8$
     9$ unzip -l ESX-3.5.0-contents.zip
     10Archive:  ESX-3.5.0-contents.zip
     11  Length     Date   Time    Name
     12 --------    ----   ----    ----
     13    18304  11-19-10 01:11   contents.xml
     14      701  11-19-10 01:11   contents.xml.sig
     15 --------                   -------
     16    19005                   2 files
     17$
     18}}}
     19
     202. Create a patch depot.
     21
     22{{{
     23$ mkdir -p ESX350.Depot/ESX350
     24$ ( cd ESX350.Depot/ESX350 ; unzip ../../ESX-3.5.0-contents.zip )
     25Archive:  ../../ESX-3.5.0-contents.zip
     26  inflating: contents.xml           
     27  inflating: contents.xml.sig       
     28$
     29}}}
     30
     313. Create list of patches to download (Dec-2009, and newer).
     32
     33{{{
     34$ egrep 'ESX350-20(0912|10)' ESX350.Depot/ESX350/contents.xml | \
     35    cut -d\" -f4 > patch-list.txt
     36$
     37$ head -1 patch-list.txt ; tail -1 patch-list.txt
     38ESX350-200912401-BG
     39ESX350-201012410-BG
     40$ wc -l patch-list.txt
     4147 patch-list.txt
     42$
     43}}}
     44
     454. Download all patch bundles.
     46
     47{{{
     48$ ( while read p ; do
     49      wget -q http://download3.vmware.com/software/vi/${p}.zip
     50    done ) < patch-list.txt
     51$
     52}}}
     53
     545. Extract patch bundles into the patch depot.
     55
     56{{{
     57$ for f in ESX350-*.zip ; do
     58    ( cd ESX350.Depot/ESX350 ; unzip -q ../../$f )
     59  done
     60$
     61$ ls -log ESX350.Depot/ESX350
     62total 212
     63-rw-rw-rw- 1 18304 Nov 19 01:11 contents.xml
     64-rw-r--r-- 1   701 Nov 19 01:11 contents.xml.sig
     65drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Dec 21  2009 ESX350-200912401-BG
     66drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Dec 21  2009 ESX350-200912402-BG
     67drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Dec 21  2009 ESX350-200912403-BG
     68drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Dec 21  2009 ESX350-200912404-BG
     69drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Dec 21  2009 ESX350-200912405-BG
     70drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Dec 21  2009 ESX350-200912406-BG
     71drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Feb  9  2010 ESX350-201002401-SG
     72drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Feb  9  2010 ESX350-201002402-SG
     73drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Feb  9  2010 ESX350-201002403-BG
     74drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Feb  9  2010 ESX350-201002404-SG
     75drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Feb  9  2010 ESX350-201002405-BG
     76drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Feb  9  2010 ESX350-201002406-BG
     77drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Feb  9  2010 ESX350-201002407-SG
     78drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Feb  9  2010 ESX350-201002408-BG
     79drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Feb  9  2010 ESX350-201002409-BG
     80drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Feb  9  2010 ESX350-201002411-BG
     81drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Mar 22  2010 ESX350-201003401-BG
     82drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Mar 22  2010 ESX350-201003402-BG
     83drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Mar 22  2010 ESX350-201003403-SG
     84drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Jun 22 00:05 ESX350-201006401-SG
     85drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Jun 22 00:06 ESX350-201006402-BG
     86drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Jun 22 00:06 ESX350-201006403-BG
     87drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Jun 22 00:06 ESX350-201006404-BG
     88drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Jun 22 00:06 ESX350-201006405-SG
     89drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Jun 22 00:06 ESX350-201006406-SG
     90drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Jun 22 00:06 ESX350-201006407-SG
     91drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Jun 22 00:06 ESX350-201006408-SG
     92drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Jun 22 00:06 ESX350-201006409-BG
     93drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Aug 18 22:52 ESX350-201008401-SG
     94drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Aug 18 22:52 ESX350-201008402-BG
     95drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Aug 18 22:52 ESX350-201008403-BG
     96drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Aug 18 22:52 ESX350-201008405-SG
     97drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Aug 18 22:52 ESX350-201008406-SG
     98drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Aug 18 22:53 ESX350-201008407-SG
     99drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Aug 18 22:53 ESX350-201008409-BG
     100drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Aug 18 22:53 ESX350-201008410-SG
     101drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Aug 18 22:53 ESX350-201008411-SG
     102drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Aug 18 22:53 ESX350-201008412-SG
     103drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Nov 19 01:10 ESX350-201012401-SG
     104drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Nov 19 01:11 ESX350-201012402-BG
     105drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Nov 19 01:11 ESX350-201012404-BG
     106drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Nov 19 01:11 ESX350-201012405-BG
     107drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Nov 19 01:11 ESX350-201012406-BG
     108drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Nov 19 01:11 ESX350-201012407-BG
     109drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Nov 19 01:11 ESX350-201012408-SG
     110drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Nov 19 01:11 ESX350-201012409-SG
     111drwxr-xr-x 3  4096 Nov 19 01:11 ESX350-201012410-BG
     112$
     113}}}
     114
     1156. Make an ISO image, burn a DVD.
     116
     117{{{
     118$ mkisofs -J -r -V ESX350u5-20101217 -o ./ESX350u5-20101217.iso ./ESX350.Depot
     119 [...]
     120$ ls -log ESX350u5-20101217.iso
     121-rw-rw-r-- 1 1942310912 Dec 17 16:34 ESX350u5-20101217.iso
     122$ cdrecord -sao -data ESX350u5-20101217.iso
     123}}}
     124
     1257. Put the DVD into ESX host's optical drive, mount it up, install the patches.
     126
     127{{{
     128esx3# mkdir /mnt/cdrom
     129esx3# mount -r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
     130esx3# esxupdate --noreboot -d file:///mnt/cdrom/ESX350 update
     131 [...]
     132esx3# esxupdate query | grep 12/17/10
     133 ESX350-200912403-BG    17:59:06 12/17/10 Updates e1000e driver
     134 ESX350-200912404-BG    17:59:06 12/17/10 Updates igb driver
     135 ESX350-200912405-BG    17:59:06 12/17/10 Updates ixgbe driver
     136 ESX350-201002401-SG    17:59:06 12/17/10 Updates Net-SNMP
     137 ESX350-201002402-SG    17:59:06 12/17/10 Security updates to Python package
     138 ESX350-201002404-SG    17:59:06 12/17/10 Security update to BIND
     139 ESX350-201002405-BG    17:59:06 12/17/10 Updates Aacraid driver
     140 ESX350-201002407-SG    17:59:07 12/17/10 Updates Libxml2
     141 ESX350-201002408-BG    17:59:07 12/17/10 Updates MPT SCSI driver
     142 ESX350-201002409-BG    17:59:07 12/17/10 Updates iSCSI driver, iSCSI daemon
     143 ESX350-201003403-SG    17:59:07 12/17/10 Updates vmware-webCenter-esx
     144 ESX350-201006401-SG    17:59:07 12/17/10 Updates VMkernel,Tools,Hostd,VMX,VMnix
     145 ESX350-201006403-BG    17:59:07 12/17/10 Updates Qlogic driver
     146 ESX350-201006404-BG    17:59:07 12/17/10 Updates e1000 driver
     147 ESX350-201006405-SG    17:59:07 12/17/10 Updates GNU GCC package
     148 ESX350-201006406-SG    17:59:07 12/17/10 Updates GNU zip package
     149 ESX350-201006407-SG    17:59:07 12/17/10 Updates NTP package
     150 ESX350-201006409-BG    17:59:07 12/17/10 Updates CIM and Pegasus
     151 ESX350-201008402-BG    17:59:07 12/17/10 Updates bnx2x driver
     152 ESX350-201008405-SG    17:59:07 12/17/10 Updates cpio
     153 ESX350-201008406-SG    17:59:07 12/17/10 Updates expat
     154 ESX350-201008407-SG    17:59:07 12/17/10 Updates tar
     155 ESX350-201008411-SG    17:59:07 12/17/10 Updates krb5
     156 ESX350-201008412-SG    17:59:07 12/17/10 Updates perl
     157 ESX350-201012401-SG    17:59:07 12/17/10 Updates VMkernel, hostd, VMX
     158 ESX350-201012402-BG    17:59:07 12/17/10 Updates VMware-esx-tools
     159 ESX350-201012404-BG    17:59:07 12/17/10 Updates VMware-esx-scripts
     160 ESX350-201012405-BG    17:59:07 12/17/10 Updates kernel-vmnix
     161 ESX350-201012406-BG    17:59:07 12/17/10 Updates VMware-esx-perftools
     162 ESX350-201012407-BG    17:59:07 12/17/10 Updates Emulex Fiber Channel driver
     163 ESX350-201012408-SG    17:59:07 12/17/10 Updates samba
     164 ESX350-201012409-SG    17:59:07 12/17/10 Updates bzip
     165 ESX350-201012410-BG    17:59:07 12/17/10 Important: Update ESX 3.5 secure key
     166For a differential list of rpms, use the -l/--listrpms option.
     167esx3#
     168}}}
     169
     170=== See Also ===
     171
     172http://downloads.vmware.com/d/info/datacenter_downloads/vmware_infrastructure_3/3_5 \\ VMware ESX 3.5 Update 5 - Release Date 2009/12/03
     173
     174http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_35/esx_3/r35/vi3_35_25_esxupdate.pdf \\ ESX Server 3 Patch Management Guide
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