thinking sysadmin

On the ESX console, do the following:

• Read the documentation for each patch.
• Group patches that can be installed together into a directory, possibly an NFS mount available on all your ESX hosts.
• Cd into the patch directory and untar the patches:

  for i in `ls *.tgz`; do
tar -xvzf $i
done

• Install the patches:

  for i in `ls`; do
if [ -d $i ]; then
cd $i
esxupdate --noreboot update
cd ..
fi
done

• Reboot.

Am I the only one that hates VMware’s patch download site and its corresponding applet? (Maybe – I couldn’t find anyone complaining about it looking quickly on VMware’s message boards, which I found most odd.) I’ve never been able to get it to launch under Firefox, only under IE (even on the same machine with the same JVM). And when it does launch, it is slow as molasses.
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