My Own ESXi Server Part 6 Updating ESXi Server using vSphere Host Update Utility

In Part 4 Installing ESXi Server on a USB Stick, I installed the initial release of ESXi4.  Since that initial release, there has been a number of patches.  To install these patches, I will use vSphere Host Update Utility.  You might remember that I checked an additional box during the vSphere Client install to have this be available to us now.

How to Patch VMware ESXi 4 using vSphere Host Update Utility

1)  Go to Start > All Programs > VMware > vSphere Host Update Utility 4.0

2)  Check Don't ask again and click Yes.

3)  Select your host and click Scan for Patches.

4)  Enter user name of root and password that you used when you installed and customized ESXi Server.  Click Login.

5)  In this case, it reported that there are 11 patches detected.  Click Patch Host.

6)  A detailed list of the patches is then displayed.  Click Install.

7)  You will see a report that once the patches is completed.  In this case the status is Success.  Click OK.      With this set of patches, a reboot is required.

8)  I recommend repeating the process to ensure there are no other patches.  Click Scan for Patches.

Related Posts:
Part 1  The Time Has Come
Part 2  Running ESXi on VMware Fusion
Part 3  Building My ESXi Server
Part 4  Installing ESXi 4 on a USB Stick
Part 5  Installing vSphere Client on Windows
Part 6  Updating ESXi using vSphere Host Update Utility
Part 7  Browsing the VMware ESXi Datastore
Part 8  WinSCP to the Rescue
Part 9  Creating a VM
Part 10  Downloading a Virtual Machine

***Updated March 26th 2010
I have decided to continue the series with at least the following:

Part 11  Running vSphere Client from Ubuntu
Part 12  Running vSphere Client from Mac OS
Part 13  Adding/Removing a VM to ESXi
Part 14  Export in ESXi
Part 15  Deploying OVF Templates
Part 16  Adding a License Key