I received multiple questions around this so decided to ask around internally. I managed to get ahold of the VMware Update Manager (aka VUM) Product Manager and after exchanging a couple of emails this is the outcome: VMware vSphere Compatibility Matrixes Table 13 on page 14 of the above linked document states that VUM doesn’t support MS SQL 2008 Standard. [...]

My VMware Cloud Team colleague Max Daneri of VMTS fame was building a vSphere 4.1 environment this week. During the installation of VUM(VMware Update Manager) he ran into an issue with the database connection which I thought would be useful to share with you. After some playing around he found out that apparently VUM requires a 32-bit ODBC DSN. Which [...]

When I tried to download patches via a freshly installed VMware vSphere Update Manager today I received the following error: https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/index.xml; hosting the patch definitions and patches cannot be reached or has no patch data Although we configured a proxy including the appropriate account it would not work. As suggested in this KB article I removed the “http://” part of [...]

According to page 15 of the the vSphere compatibility matrix guide VMware vCenter Update Manager isn’t supported on Windows 2008 32 and 64 bit. I just received an email from one of my colleagues stating that this is incorrect. The document will be updated soon but for now take my word on it VUM is supported on Windows 2008 32 [...]

A couple of days ago I posted about Update Manager wanting to install updates regarding the Nexus while I did not have the Nexus installed. I’ve rebuild my entire test environment with the latest(GA) build and noticed that I’m not experiencing these issues anymore. Now I’ve either had an outdated version of VUM, a screwed up database or I was [...]

I was playing around with vSphere ESXi 4.0 and the Update Manager. As Jason Boche already reported several patches have been released and I wanted to test Update Manager. After downloading all the patches I noticed that there was a patch regarding the Cisco Nexus 1000v. Although I did not have the 1000v installed Update Manager did want to install [...]

One of my customers asked me if it is possible to change the download protocol for VMware Update Manager into http. Due to security regulations they are not allowed to have traffic over https on their server backbone. To achieve this you will need to change the vci-integrity.xml file in the Update Manager directory. The default url is: https://www.vmware.com/PatchManagementSystem/patchmanagement When [...]