Name Version Vendor Summary Category Severity Bulletin; bnxtnet: 216.0.50.0-16vmw.701.0.0.16850804: VMW: VMware Esx VIB: enhancement: important: Broadcom-bnxt-Net.

Staging patches and extensions is an optional step that can reduce the time during which hosts are in maintenance mode. Staging patches and extensions to hosts that are running ESX/ESXi 4.0 or later lets you download the patches and extensions from the Update Manager server to the ESX/ESXi hosts without applying the patches or extensions.
The famous method is to use WinSCP to download the files from source ESXi host to some windows machine and again upload the same to the destination ESXi host using WinSCP. In this article, I am going to explain the procedure to Copy files between ESXi hosts using SCP command. VMware recommends that you use SCP to copy files to or from ESX hosts.
It has a number of patches that need to be applied to it and I'm wondering what the best way to do this is. I can use the Update Manager to stage the patches to the host but then I need to shutdown all the guests in order to put the host in to maintenance mode to actually apply them. Obviously this shuts down the Update Manager.

VMware is releasing patches for their products regular basis to keep the product more stable and secure, some. vSphere 6.7 has released few months back and VMware released 3 patches for this version, also they have released vSphere 6.7 Update 1 . As we know, Update or patching is easy if you have internet connectivity to your vCenter and if you don’t have Internet Connection VMware is given another option offline method. In this post, I will be sharing how you can perform Update or patching of vCenter Server Offline , here we performing updating VCSA 6.7 to 6.7 Update 1 .

This process required only four steps Download Patches , Mount the Patches (ISO) , Check for Patches and Initiate Stage & Install

Download vCenter Server Patch

Esxi Patch Stage Locations

You can Download the Patched from VMware product patches page – https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch#search

Open a Web browser and browse the web page mentioned above
Select the drop-down menu with VC > Select 6.7 > Click the checkbox and download the latest file.

Attach Update / Patch ISO to vCenter Server VM

Note :- ISO can be uploaded the datastore visible by ESXi host or to vSphere content library for this Procedure

How to Check for Updates

Esxi Patch Stage Location Diagram

You can Login to VAMI UI by https://IP_or_FQDN:5480

Navigate to Update > Check Updates > Check CD-ROM + URL

Note:- This option will allow you to check update from internet and local ISO mounted to vCenter .If you don’t have access to internet, mount the ISO to vCenter from Webclient, Check CD-ROM option will check the update only from mounted ISO .

Patch VMware vCSA 6.7

Click the Pre-upgrade checks option highlighted within the darker blue area and in a while you can see the pre-upgrade check as Passed .

Click the Stage and Install link (button) to initiate the update process.

Accept the EULA and Click Next

Next screen is Join CEIP and default it will be checked , leave as default and click Next

Next Screen to confirm that you have the Backup of vCenter Server , if you have not backed up then there is option “go to backups”

to take a backup of vCenter

Click on Finish to start the update process

Next screen is the staging process during which all the patches are copied inside of the appliance

After some time the screen changes and the installation starts.

This installation is a long process and it will take more time , as you can see one of above screen shot shows estimates downtime 141 Minutes . After all update you can login to vCenter and verify the status and Build number .

vCenter Patch / Update from CLI – Offline Method

This is alternate method we can use to perform offline update using same ISO file we downloaded .

Mount the Downloaded ISO to VCSA VM

Offline patching is the feasible option for environments doesn’t have internet access . You can download the .zip file of the patch / update and perform update that also an offline method but this is the easy one compare to that .