New patches for ESX 4 and ESXi 4
New updates and bug fixes has been released yesterday.
Jason Boche, (as usual… ) and Duncan Epping were two of the first persons to report the updates. Those updates are for both versions VMware Server Virtualization products. There are patches for ESX 4 and also for ESXi 4. Some of them are reported as critical, and some of them are security patches. After application some of those patches, there is reboot required, so you must schedule a maintenance window.
As Said on Jason’s blog, he did configured a schedule to check every 6 hours for updates with his VMware Update Manager inside of vSphere 4 so like this you’re informed quite fast about new updates. This is a good practice and also what’s possible is that you can configure an e-mail alert through the vCenter alerts at the same time.
You can also subscribe via RSS to Security Alert channel on VMware’s RSS feed. If you do not using RSS, you missing quite a lot. It’s not too late. Me too few years ago when I discovered RSS, I was working in the IT industry for several years, but never found it usefull, or never interested myself enough on how-to actually subscribe to RSS on webpages . See my page about using RSS here.
So here are the links for the patches.
Patches for ESX 4 Server :
And for ESXi 4 here:
For Standalone Servers.
If you are NOT using Update Manager, download the patch zip file from http://support.vmware.com/selfsupport/download/ and install the bulletin using esxupdate from the command line of the host. For more information, see the ESX 4 Patch Management Guide.
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