After additional reading in the vSphere 4.1 upgrade guide, we planned to update the ESXi hosts (cresskill, westwood, and northvale). The 4.0-4.1 update zip file was downloaded from VMware and placed on a local hard drive.
Plan A was to use Update Manager (VUM). The update file was imported into Update Manager, a baseline was configured, and cresskill was chosen as the first host to be updated. Once the VUM configuration was set, we kicked off the update. It failed within 5 minutes due to the fact that we are using eval licenses that are not supported for update through VUM. On to Plan B.....
Plan B was to use the vCLI and the vihostupdate script to perform the updates. Getting the syntax correct took a little work but in the end, all hosts were updated to 4.1. The "vihostupdate" query command was run on each host and they each displayed the following:
ESXi410-GA 2010-09-20T20:44:10 ESXi upgrade Bulletin
ESXi410-GA-esxupdate 2010-09-20T21:18:08 ESXi pre-upgrade Bulletin
We may have an issue later due to the order of the commands run (esxupdate run after GA), but there seems to be no immediate concern.
vCenter Server 4.1 is being brought back up and testing will resume tomorrow.
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