Technical Overview of VMware ESXi Patching and Upgrading with Eric Gray, Principal Architect, VMware

VMware vSphere administrators are responsible for keeping critical infrastructure software patched so that it is secure and reliable. Pre-upgrade verification, efficient execution, and certain post-upgrade tasks must all be considered when planning for updates to this critical infrastructure element. Find out how to easily update VMware ESXi hosts, including those deployed with custom OEM images, even in environments without Internet access. Compare different workflows for patching and major version upgrades, and see improvements in recent releases of vSphere Update Manager that make it faster and easier to use.

[wodge]

This is a great overview and presentation. Very much appreciated - thank you.

[wetcracker]

Agree with previous commenter, this was very helpful!

[harishtkulal]

Could you please describe me what is esxi host patching? Is it firmware or OS updates? If yes how it ll be? Please describe me! Have some confusion on same..