You might wonder why you would want to pre-install the vCenter agent on an ESX box? Well if you have several remote offices which need to be connected to a central vCenter Server it will take a while before these agents are pushed and installed. Especially if the connection between these sites isn’t as fast as most of us are used to at home. (I’m talking 128KB here for instance…) One of my colleagues, as mentioned in a previous article, is doing a major roll out of ESX. With their current bandwidth adding an ESX server to the central vCenter Server took over 20 minutes. With the vCenter agent pre-installed this was cut down to only 2 minutes. That will save you a lot of time when you need to do over 200 hosts…
- On the vCenter Server, look for the following files in C:\Program Files\VMware\Infrastructure\VirtualCenter Server\upgrade
vpx-upgrade-esx-7-linux-104215
vpx-upgrade-esx-7-linux-104215.sig
- copy the files to the ESX host and run the following commands:
sh vpx-upgrade-esx-7-linux-104215
service mgmt-vmware restart
- wait 5 min…
Yet another chunk of stuff in C:\Documents and Settings…Why can’t all this crap reside in %ProgramFiles%?
My rant for the day :o)
Thanks, Duncan. For other readers, the accompanying file “bundleversion.xml” contains information on the different file versions found in this directory. Thought this might be helpful to anyone who finds this post as newer versions of ESX / ESXi are released and “vpx-upgrade-esx-7-linux-104215” becomes outdated.