How to Update or Patch the vCenter 6 Appliance

8th July 2015 2 By Simon

With the release yesterday of vCenter 6.0.0b I decided to do a quick post on how to patch your VCSA appliance.

Please download VCSA patch from here.

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Once downloaded copy the ISO to an accessible datastore so that you can connect the downloaded ISO file to the VCSA VM.

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Log in to the VCSA via SSH.

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Type the following command software-packages install –iso –acceptEulas (please note that it’s double  -‘s)

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Once the installation has finished reboot the VCSA.

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Type shutdown reboot -r updates

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New VCSA build version which matches the first screenshot above.