Update Manager Changes on vSphere 5
Posted by craig 
- on July 19th, 2011 in Announcement, Virtualization, vSphere | 5 Comments »
There are major change on the up coming version of Update Manager on vSphere 5. I was quite surprise with the change which I found out during the training today. In previous version, the update manager was able to provide patch update to virtual machine and ESX host. Which allow users to patch the virtual machine for both windows and Linux easily without require to purchase additional software management tools. With the new version of update manager, this capability had removed. It will only support the patch capability for ESX host level. You will no longer enjoy the benefits to perform patch update for virtual machine with Update Manager vSphere 5.
I was quite disappointing with this changes as I had used to the patch capability on virtual machines in the previous version. I will need to clarify further with the local representative about the changes on this.
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To be fair this was part of the release notes for update manager in 4.1 update 1. I think the functionality exists in VMware vCenter Configuration Manager, but since VMware bought Shavlik, who knows what they might be planning.
I just check on their website, the configuration is not free. I am waiting to clarify this with local VMware rep and will post and update.
VMware acquire http://shavlik.com/ and disable update the VM with update manager.
This is same as Microsoft, remove hot features which attract user to another payed products.
and PAY for everything
Agree with you and this move had surprise me again, it is too much for user to consider before moving to vsphere 5 now as esx 4.1 are good enough still with a lot of function in place today
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