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This blog is mainly a technical repository of information on Virtualisation tools and management for our hosting service.

Also for HP's Bladesystem that we use at both our datacentres.

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Wednesday 16 January 2013

Manually patching vSphere 5.0 free edition

As the free edition can't use update manager a quick and easy way to patch a single host is to download the latest patch from VMWare and upload to an accessible datastore then put the host into maintenance mode.
http://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal
Then enable SSH on the host, login and run:
esxcli software vib install -d /vmfs/volumes/datastore/patchfile.zip
It'll take a while and you should get results that say it's all been sucessful and you need to reboot.