Nov 17 2010
how to easy manually update an ESX host
now that the first update for ESX4.1 is there, here an easy procedure how to update the ESX 4.1 host manually (if you do not have updatemanager installed)
step 1: download the update (easy with the firefox support toolbar) from http://www.vmware.com/patch/download/ and save the file. (the ESX410-201010001.zip is today the latest)
step 2: put the ESX 4.1 host in maintanance mode… (make sure there are no VM’s running on this host 
) and
copy the ESX410-201010001.zip filr with Veeam FastCSP or winscp to the /tmp directory
step 3: start putty as the root (#su -) and change to the /tmp dir (#cd /tmp) ps:never type the dash(#)
step 4: run command #esxupdate –bundle=ESX410-201010001.zip check
if everything gave no error;
step 5: run command #esxupdate –bundle=ESX410-201010001.zip update
step 6: run command #reboot
thats it!
(your host should be updated, you can check this on vCenter or from putty with the command #vmware -v)
