Patching

Question 1

List the ESXi host requirements for vSphere update manager

Answer 1

■ Only ESX/ESXi 4.0 and newer hosts are supported.
■ Upgrades/migrations require ESX/ESXi 4 and newer.
■ vCenter Server is required.
■ vSphere Update Manager requires its own database.

Question 2

What are the two ways of updating vmware tools?

Answer 2

■ Using vSphere Update Manager

■ Manually using the vSphere Web Client

Question 3

What are the requirements for using vSphere update manager to to update virtual machine hardware and vmware tools?

Answer 3

• ESX/ESXi 4 and newer hosts are supported.

■ Virtual machine guest OS patch operations are not supported.

Question 4

What are the requirements for host profiles?

Answer 4

• Only ESX/ESXi 4 and newer hosts are supported.

■ vSphere Enterprise Plus licensing is required.

Question 5

What is the file name extension of a host profile?

Answer 5

vpf

Question 6

What are the requirements for installing vsphere update manager?

Answer 6

• vCenter Server installation media should be available.
  ■ Microsoft.NET Framework 3.5 SP1 or newer is required.
  ■ vCenter Server should be installed and working properly.
  ■ A dedicated Oracle or Microsoft SQL Server database should be used. Environments
  smaller than 5 hosts and 50 VMs can use the bundled SQL Server 2008 R2
  Express database.
  ■ A 64-bit Windows system is required for installation.
  ■ The Windows system cannot be an Active Directory domain controller.
  ■ A 32-bit DSN is required for database connectivity, if you are not using the bundled
  SQL Express database.
  ■ vSphere Update Manager 5.5 is compatible only with vCenter Server 5.5.
  ■ The Update Manager server and client plug-ins must be running the same version.
  ■ Update Manager, vCenter Server, and the vSphere Client must be running
  compatible versions.
  ■ For full functionality of Update Manager, the traditional vSphere Client is required.
  The vSphere Web Client can be used to attach baselines and scan entities, but it
  cannot remediate.

Question 7

How can you update the patch store for update manager?

Answer 7

Edit information contained in the C:\Program

Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\Update Manager\vci-integrity.xml file.

Question 8

How does VMware recommend the patch store of VUM to be configured?

Answer 8

By IP address

Question 9

What three cluster settings need to be disabled for update manager to work?

Answer 9

DPM, HA Admission control, Fault Tolerance

Question 10

What are the two default host patch baselines

Answer 10

Critical Host Patches (Predefined) These are used to check ESX/ESXi hosts for compliance
with all critical patches.
Non-Critical Host Patches (Predefined) These are used to check ESX/ESXi hosts for compliance
with all optional patches.

Question 11

What are the three default baseline types

Answer 11

Host patch baselines,

Host extension baselines, and Host Upgrade Baselines

Question 12

What are the three default VM/VA baselines?

Answer 12

• VMware Tools Upgrade To Match Host (Predefined) Used to check virtual machines
  for compliance with the latest version of VMware Tools available on the ESX/ESXi 4 or
  newer host.
• VM Hardware Upgrade To Match Host (Predefined) Used to check the virtual hardware
  of a virtual machine for compliance with the most current version supported on the ESXi
  5.5 host.
• VA Upgrade To Latest (Predefined) Used to check virtual appliance compliance with the
  latest available version of the virtual appliance

Question 13

What limitation does VUM have for ESX 4 hosts

Answer 13

Cannot upgrade ESX 4 hosts that were upgraded from 3.x

Question 14

How much space must ESXi hosts have in the /boot.partition to do an update to 5.5 via VUM?

Answer 14

More than 350mb