Knowledge Base

Download Instructions

Download and verify the patch bundle as follows:

1. Download patch ESX-1001693 by clicking on the link above.
2. Log in to the ESX Server service console as root.
3. Create a local depot directory.

   # mkdir -p /var/updates

   Note: VMware recommends that you use the updates directory.

4. Change your working directory to /var/updates.

   # cd /var/updates

5. Download the tar file into the /var/updates directory.
6. Verify the integrity of the downloaded tar file:

   # md5sum ESX-1001693.tgz

   The md5 checksum output should match the following:

   a11191b59761b6afb68ea73e9e6456d0 ESX-1001693.tgz

7. Extract the compressed tar archive:

   # tar -xvzf ESX-1001693.tgz

8. Change to the newly created directory, /var/updates/ESX-1001693:

   # cd ESX-1001693

Installation Instructions

After you have downloaded and extracted the archive, and if you are in the directory you created above, install the update using the following command:

# esxupdate update

If you want to run esxupdate from a different directory, you must specify the bundle path in the command:

# esxupdate -r file://<directory>/ESX-1001693 update

For example, if the host is called depot:

# esxupdate -r file:///depot/var/updates/ESX-1001693 update

During the update process, logs appear on the terminal. You can specify the verbosity of esxupdate logs by using the -v option as shown below.

# esxupdate -v 10 file://<directory>/ESX-1001693 update

For more information on using esxupdate, refer to the Patch Management for ESX Server 3 tech note at http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx3_esxupdate.pdf.