Knowledge Base

Applicability

This patch is for ESX Server 3.0.1 only. For the related patch for ESX Server 3.0.0, please refer to http://kb.vmware.com/kb/3616065.

Installing the Patch

Download Instructions

Download and verify the patch bundle as follows:

1. Download patch ESX-9916286 from http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/vi3_patches.html.
2. Log into the ESX Server service console as root.
3. Create a local depot directory.

   # mkdir /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-9916286.tgz

   The md5 checksum output should match the following:

   7b98cfe1b2e0613c368d4080dcacccb8 ESX-9916286.tgz

7. Extract the compressed tar archive.

   # tar -xvzf ESX-9916286.tgz

8. Change to the newly created directory, /var/updates/ESX-9916286.

   # cd ESX-9916286

Installation Instructions

Once 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-9916286 update

For example, if the host is called depot:

# esxupdate –r file:///depot/var/updates/ESX-9916286 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 -r file://<directory>/ESX-9916286 update

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