VMware Update Manager not downloading ESX updates
I’m currently working on replacing all our ESX 3.0.2 and 3.0.1 hosts with 3.5 U4 hosts, unfortunately the leap to vSphere is going to have to wait until next year.
One of my main reasons for doing this was to allow for the introduction of VMware Update Manager for ESX Host patching. ESX Hosting patching can be a bit of a pain when using the service console and Esxupdate and because of this patching starts to become a nightmare and gets forgotten about.
So I had my first ESX 3.5 host added to virtual center and was poking around the VMware Update Manager tab and noticed that there were absolutely no host patches attached to the default host baselines. I did a bit of digging around online and plenty of people had problems out there with the actual installation of VUM or their vci-integrity.xml file was missing some of it’s content.
Luckily my issue was resolved far more easily. My virtual center server didn’t appear to be able to access the websites to get the patches due to the enhanced security pack. All I had to do was add the following websites into the trusted sites on Internet Explorer on the Virtual Center server.
https://www.vmware.com
https://xml.shavlik.com
When the next scheduled patch download occured I recieved 150 patches for ESX 3.5.0 and was then able to create a custom baseline for all patches after 3.5.0 U4 and apply them. Worked an absolute treat.
