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It was so easy вЂ“ particularly in comparison of the days of updating a Windows-based vCenter Server. In my lab, the process only took around 30 minutes. You are backing up your vCenter вЂ“ right?! With VCSA 6.7 it is very easy and can be scheduled. The process is very simple вЂ“ a few checkboxes and Next/Finish clicks! If you havenвЂ™t updated your VCSA before using the VAMI, you can see a walkthrough of the remaining screens below. NOTE: I did take a snapshot of the VCSA VM before doing any of this work!

#VSPHERE 6.7 VERSION NUMBERS INSTALL#

Since my checks passed, I clicked the STAGE AND INSTALL option above the patch list and the upgrade finally began! If you click the RUN PRE-UPDATE CHECKS link, it will look for issues that may cause problems in the upgrade process. You can see the patch details by clicking the > symbol to expand If you donвЂ™t see one, click Check Updates (CD ROM & URL). In order to distinguish the two, I found /rest/appliance/system/version that is. In my lab, the new patch appeared automatically. Im using the REST Api to control vSphere vCenter Server 6.5 and 6.7. If the User Name or Password fields have any information in them вЂ“ blank that out.Д¬lick Save.

#VSPHERE 6.7 VERSION NUMBERS UPDATE#

This will reveal the Update Settings dialogД¬lick on the Use Custom Repository option, where you can apply the URL from the VMware Knowledge Base article listed above. To configure the VAMI with this custom URL, login to the VAMI for your VCSA, and navigate to Update, and click on Settings. As of the time this blog was written that URL is It provided a custom URL you can configure in the VAMI as workaround. This described a known issue where the VAMI in VCSA 6.7 may not display available patches. While I could have downloaded the update file from the VMware Portal, I spent a little time searching to see if I could find the problem. Sure enough вЂ“ vCenter Server 6.7.0d was released on 8-14-2018. I double-checked KB 2143838 which is the list of vCenter Server build numbers to ensure a new release was available. I hit the Check Updates button with the option to check the CD ROM and URL but to my confusion no updates appeared in the list. I logged into the Virtual Appliance Management Interface (or VAMI) by pointing my web browser at the IP of my vCenter Server Appliance using port 5480 (for example: ) and navigated to the Update tab. For my vCenter, I was excited to use the VAMI Update functionality for the first time! Like many others who work with VMware vSphere environments, I read up on the remediation steps ( KB 55683) so I could patch my small lab environment. As you probably are aware, Intel disclosed a CPU Speculative-Execution vulnerability (called L1 Terminal Fault) on August 14, 2018.

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