***Before starting the patching activity, in case of vCenter in ELM need to shutdown and take offline snapshot for all the vCenters in ELM . So that if rollback require there is working state to revert back, during vCenter patch activity recommended to pause VM backups.
Download patch ISO from VMware Patch download page, by logging with your customer connect credential.
https://customerconnect.vmware.com/patch (for example see screenshot below):
1. Find venter VM and note ESXi host it is running on. Put DRS Automation in manual mode if host part of DRS cluster.
2. Connect ESXi host UI on which vCenter VM is running.
3. Shutdown vCenter VM.
4. Take snapshot of VM.
5. PowerON vCenter VM
6. Mount vCenter latest patch iso
7. SSH to vCenter
Check the shell
If not on Vcenter appliance shell prompt.
Run this appliancesh
If already on Vcenter shell then run below commands.
Be on below prompt of venter appliance.
Command>
Run the below commands one by one.
Command> software-packages stage --iso --acceptEulas
Command> software-packages list --staged
Command> software-packages install --staged
After successful upgrade, this will reboot venter VM, wait for all the service come up.
To check version of vCenter after patch you can run the command (from bash shell)
Type shell and press Enter
vpxd -vl
To check service status on vcenter server run below command:
service-control --status
This completes the vCenter patch activity. You can remove snapshot as per your org policy. Keeping snapshot for longtime not recommended.
