Update Manager Download Service (umds)
Antonio Hadfield
If choosing to use the web server option you can install your Web Server of choice and point to your configured path store location. For Windows the default location is C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Update Manager\Data\ and on Linux the default location is /var/lib/vmware-umds
The PROBLEM with this is that every time VMware goes through major version change (ie. 6.7 > 7.x or 7.x > 8.x) the UMDS can only serve the Vcenters of it's own version. Yes, it can download fixes for other ESXi versions, but when you try to use UMDS service for different version of vcenter it doesn't work. After much of browsing I finally found verification for this info from VMware documents. So let's say I have problem with getting another IP and firewall openings for the second UMDS server: Is there any way I can run 7 and 8 version of UMDS in a same linux server and just use different web path. I'm not super linux savvy so help would be appreciated.
One of the most highly requested feature from customers with regards to the adoption of the vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) is to have vSphere Update Manager (VUM) available as a Virtual Appliance. With the vSphere 6.5 release, this is now a reality as VUM is now embedded within the VCSA. The VUM service is also automatically enabled and associated with the vCenter Server instance which means from a customer standpoint, it is zero touch to get VUM up and running!
In addition to VUM being part of the VCSA 6.5, there is also the VUM Update Manager Download Service (UMDS) that can be installed on a separate Linux system. You can find the UMDS installer within the VCSA 6.5 ISO under the umds directory. To install UMDS, there are several pre-requisites that you must meet, some of which are documented here. The other requirements which are not documented are the additional OS package dependencies required to run the UMDS installer. While going through this by hand the first time, I found the following packages were required to install on an Ubuntu 14.04 distribution:
For those of you who know me, if I have to perform something manually once, I might as well automate it for the future ? I decided to create this quick shell script called install_umds65.sh which will allow you to easily deploy UMDS on an Ubuntu LTS 14.04 distribution. This can be useful for automated deployments or quickly standing up a lab environment.
At this point, you have now successfully installed UMDS. You can use the vmware-umds CLI to add/remove patch repository as well as initiate the download by using the -D option. Once you have download 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.
Great article, I have really enjoyed your article. This is really great that VUM is now embedded within the VCSA. The VUM service is also automatically enabled and associated with the vCenter Server instance which means from a customer standpoint, it is zero touch to get VUM up and running. You show how to automate the deployment of VUM's Update Manager Download Service (UMDS) in vSphere 6.5 for an Ubuntu 14.04 distribution. It is really helpful. I have done by the help of your article. Thanks for sharing. The way you explained each and everything is really great. Thanks once again.
Step 1 - Download and extract the VCSA 6.5 ISO which contains the VUM UMDS Installer. You will need to copy the VMware-UMDS-6.5.0-4540462.tar.gz (located under umds directory) to your system that has the Docker Client.
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.
The Umds service provides operations to manage the VMware vSphere Update Manager Download Service (UMDS) software depot used during ESX lifecycle management. This is the depot downloaded using UMDS. If the UMDS depot is specified, then online depots are ignored and data is downloaded only from the UMDS depot.
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.
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# 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.
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