Vmware Vsphere Update Manager [BETTER] Download Service (umds)
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You can now use the vmware-umds CLI to add/remove patch repositories that UMDS can subscribe to. You would also use the utility to initiate the patch downloads by using the -D option. Once you have downloaded all of your content, you will need to setup an HTTP server to make it available to VUM instance in the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA). You can configure any popular HTTP Server such as Nginx or Apache. For my lab environment, I actually just use the tiny HTTP server that Python can provide.
If you wish to persist patch store which is located in /var/lib/vmware-umds, you could use a Docker Volume to mount a local directory on the Docker Client system and map that into the Docker Container. This would allow you to not have to download the files each time for testing purposes.
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For the configuration we need to navigate to the installation directory (C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\Update Manager). There you can leverage the vmware-umds.exe command line tool.
You can get the default configuration by using this command:
# Run command vmware-umds -G to view the patch store location, the proxy settings and which downloads are enabled. By default it is configured to download host patches for ESX(i) 4 , 5 and 6. i have disabled for 4 and 5.
Next, mount the vCenter Server Appliance ISO file, copy the UMDS installer tar.gz file into the /umds folder and extract the installer. When this is complete there should be a vmware-umds-distrib folder.
Next try installing UMDS again with ./vmware-install.pl -d, here d parameter represent default option. Check license and Agreement by pressing enter, keep pressing Enter until more option from left bottom is disappeared. next it shows Do you accept? EULA, type yes, It start installation with default options, I can change the settings later. You will see installation successfully done with vmware-uninstall-umds.pl script path.
Make changes to root option under Server node, /var/lib/vmware-umds is a location where UMDS downloads patches and metadata. Another thing the files need to be in directory mode, so I have added autoindex on under location node.
Post installation of UMDS, you can use the vmware-umds command to configure the UMDS server. This executable is located in the installation directory of UMDS, which defaults to C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\Infrastructure\Update Manager.
enables the download of both ESXi host updates and virtual appliance upgradesvmware-umds -S --disable-host --enable-va enables the download of virtual appliance upgrades onlyvmware-umds -S --enable-host --disable-va enables the download of ESXi host updates onlyChange the UMDS Patch Repository Locationvmware-umds -S --patch-store new_store_path configures the patch repository in the new_store_path directory.
The only supported Operating systems for VMware update manager download services are RedHat Enterprise or Ubuntu. You will want to download and deploy either RedHat Enterprise or Ubuntu, in this post I will be walking through the Ubuntu configuration.
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