Knowledge Base

Note: Before you begin please refer to KB1003490 for important information on restarting the mgmt-vmware service.

Symptoms

• Setting an incorrect NIC teaming policy might result in an error message being displayed. Following this, if you tried to set the appropriate NIC teaming policy without closing and reopening the vSwitch Properties dialog box, the same error message might be displayed again.
• Customization Specification Manager wizard in the VI Client might fail if a non-default timezone was configured without the INDEX key in the Windows registry.
• The Cost column in the VirtualCenter License Source page displayed only "1/" for the virtual machine license feature. The cost unit Virtual Machine might not be displayed..
• Prior to this release, users had to answer every instance of the Redo Log question. Answering the same question multiple times resulted in an error message being displayed. With this release, for each hard drive in the Undoable mode, answering a single instance of the redo question closes all the other instances of the same dialog box, and users do not encounter any errors.

Deployment Considerations

• Stop the hostd service using the command service mgmt-vmware stop, and restart the hostd service using the command "service mgmt-vmware start"

• Upon installation of hostd RPM, the latest version of VI Client becomes available for download.

Download Instructions

Download and verify the patch bundle as follows:

1. Download patch ESX-1002435 from http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/vi3_patches.html .

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.

7. Extract the compressed tar archive:

# tar -xvzf ESX-1002435.tgz

8. Change to the newly created directory, /var/updates/ESX-1002435 :

# cd ESX-1002435

Installation Instructions

After you download and extract the archive, and if you are in the directory that you previously created, use the following command to install the update:

# esxupdate update

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

# esxupdate -r file://<directory>/ESX-1002435 update

For example, if the host is called depot:

# esxupdate -r file:///depot/var/updates/ESX-1002435 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-1002435 update

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