Knowledge Base

Summaries and Symptoms

Issues fixed in this patch (and their relevant symptoms, if applicable) include:

• Fixes an issue where the iSCSI initiator does not retry to connect to a target when it receives a service unavailable message while attempting to connect.  Affected iSCSI targets will then be unavailable to the host until the connection is manually reestablished.  This can occur if the target is temporarily unavailable and may be observed during a disk array controller upgrade or failover

Deployment Considerations

None beyond the required patch bundles and reboot information listed in the table, above.

Patch Download and Installation

See the VMware vCenter Update Manager Administration Guide for instructions on using Update Manager to download and install patches to automatically update ESX 4.0 hosts.

To update ESX 4.0 hosts when 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.