Knowledge Base

Symptoms

On the ESX Server host, virtual machines configured with Automatic Power Off and On option, do not power on automatically on the next bootup of the ESX Server host. 

Deployment Considerations

Download Instructions   

1.      Download patch ESX-1003364 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-1003364.tgz

8.      Change to the newly created directory, /var/updates/ESX-1003364:

# cd ESX-1003364

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-1003364 update

For example, if the host is called depot:

# esxupdate -r file:///depot/var/updates/ESX-1003364 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-1003364 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 .