by Duncan Epping
Duncan Epping · ·
Today I received the following error at a customer site when applying patch via the Update Manager:”Metadata for patch missing.” After a close inspection I noticed VirtualCenter wasn’t running on port 80 but on 81 for some reason. Opening up the ESX Firewall and restarting the VMware Update Manager service seems to fix this problem. The firewall was opened up as follows
esxcfg-firewall –openport 81,tcp,out,updatemanager
Duncan Epping · ·
For those who encountered the same weird networking problems as I did, I was just browsing through the Knowledge Base articles for the patches released yesterday and found out that they fixed the driver for the Intel quad-port nic. When using VST half of the packets were dropped, for more info on the problem check these blogs: 1 , 2.
Fixed ESX Server support for Intel Zoar NICs on a VLAN trunking configuration. A flaw existed between the ESX Server networking subsystem and the igb driver.
Duncan Epping · ·
VMware just uploaded a whole bunch of patches for ESX 3.5:
ESX350-200802301-BG : Update to the bnx2 Driver
ESX350-200802303-SG : Security Update to the util-linux Package
ESX350-200802304-SG : Security Update to the Perl Package
ESX350-200802305-SG : Security Update to the openssl Package
ESX350-200802306-BG : VMware ESX Server 3.5, Patch ESX350-200802306-BG: Daylight Saving Time Update
ESX350-200802401-BG : Updates to vmware-hostd
ESX350-200802403-BG : Improved Statistics Collection for Support Scripts, Fix for Patch Issue Seen After Upgrading from ESX Server 2.5.x to 3.5.0
ESX350-200802404-BG : Resolves DMA Issues on LSI 1078 and 106XE HBAs
ESX350-200802405-BG : Update to MegaRAID SCSI Driver to Fix Dell PowerEdge 6650 Boot Issue
ESX350-200802406-SG : Updated aacraid Driver
ESX350-200802408-SG : Security Updates to the Python Package
ESX350-200802409-BG : Fix for Reset Issue with CD-ROM Controller
ESX350-200802410-BG : Unexpected Reboot of Virtual Machines Configured to Automatically Start or Stop
ESX350-200802411-BG : Enhanced Validation Checks, and Fixes for Storage VMotion and Lab Manager
ESX350-200802412-BG : Updates to the VMkernel to Fix Networking and Hardware Issues
ESX350-200802413-BG : Sunfire X4200 Host Hangs Because of HBA Timeouts Due to DMA Problems
ESX350-200802414-BG : Discrete Sensors Report Wrong Information to Monitors
ESX350-200802415-SG : Security Update to Samba Packages
And there’s also an update for 3i available:
ESXe350-200802401-I-BG : Update to the bnx2 Driver
Good luck with patching those hosts, I will be testing these patches later this day so if I encounter any problems you will be the first to know
Duncan Epping · ·
There are a bunch of new patches released for 3.0.x:
New patches are available for ESX Server 3.0.1 and ESX Server 3.0.2. Please follow the instructions on the appropriate patch download page.
VMware ESX Server 3.0.1 Patch Download Page
[http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/vi3_patches_301.html] ESX-1003504 (General): Fix for mptscsi_2xx Driver
ESX-1003505 (General): Fixes Network Connectivity Issues with Intel e1000 Driver
ESX-1003506 (General): Virtual Machines Boot Failure Through Network for PXE Clients
ESX-1003507 (Critical): Fixes Packet Latency and tg3 Driver Issues
ESX-1003355 (General): I/O Transactions on SUN X4200 Servers Cause SCSI Timeouts
ESX-1003508 (General): Fixes for VirtualCenter Server Agent Crash, Hot Addition and Deletion of LUNs Failure, Deletion of Virtual Machine Level Permissions; Support for VirtualCenter 2.0.x to Read Virtual Infrastructure 3.5 License Files
ESX-1003509 (General): Fixes for RARP Broadcast With NICs Failover and Hot Addition / Deletion of LUNs FailureVMware ESX Server 3.0.2 Patch Download Page
[http://www.vmware.com/download/vi/vi3_patches_302.html] ESX-1003513 (General): Fixes for Vmotion and Clone Operations Failure, VirtualCenter Server Agent Crash, Hot Addition and Deletion of LUNs Failure, Virtual Machine Level Permissions; VirtualCenter 2.0.x Failure to Read VI 3.5 License Files
ESX-1003177 (General): I/O Transactions on SUN X4200 Servers Cause SCSI Timeouts
ESX-1003514 (Critical): Fixes Packet Latency and tg3 Driver Issues
ESX-1003515 (Critical): Support for VMotion Incompatibility, Network Connectivity Issues; Fixes for Hot Addition and Deletion of LUNs Failure, Virtual Machines Boot Failure Through Network for PXE Clients, RARP Broadcast With NICs FailoverWe expect the next patch release in late March 2008. If you have any questions, please contact support at 877-4-VMWARE.
Duncan Epping · ·
VMware just released a new version of the ESX 3.5 ISO according to their download site. The release notes haven’t been update yet so unfortunately I can’t tell you what’s included, but my guess would be the patches released on the 17th of January.
Latest Released Version: 3.5.0 | 02/20/08 | 64607 | 565 MB
There are no new patches available for 3.5 at the moment, but they did patch 3.0.x and the following is fixed in these patches(8 patches for 3.0.2, over 140MB):
- Security Update to the Samba Package
- Security Updates to the Python Package
- Fix for aacraid SCSI Driver Security Issue
- Virtual Machines on the ESX Server host do not power ON automatically
- ESX Server host might stop responding when a CD-ROM drive is accessed
- iSCSI LUNs in the pass-through mode might cause the ESX Server host to stop responding
- Fixes for Remote-Console Black-out, OpenSolaris Boot Delay, Duplicate Packet Issue; Support for Virtual Machines to Share Generic SCSI Devices
- Fixes for VMware Tools Installer
By the way I signed in on the patch/updates email and haven’t received anything yet… Did any of you guys receive anything?