Hello,
Understand that ESXi patches are cumulative, however it's still not clear to me whether upgrade and patch release together are also cumulative. That is, if I'm currently running ESXi 6.0 GA and I want to patch it to the latest patch release which is Patch 4, do I also get the bug and security fixes included in the Update releases in between.
To make it a bit more clearer:
- I'm currently running ESXi 6.0 GA
- I plan on patching with the latest patch release which is Patch 4. However, there are 4 Update releases (Update, not Patch) before this Patch 4 release
- I understand that Patch Release only contains bug and security fixes, while Update Releases contains low-level stuff like driver updates and features enhancements etc. If I patch my hosts to Patch 4, do I get those driver updates and enhancements from Update Releases prior to Patch 4? Or do I only get bugs and security fixes
- If Patch Release doesn't include driver updates and general enhancements, does that mean that if I want those updates and enhancements I will have to deploy those updates even if those updates were older than this Patch 4? Will not result to some kind of rollback? How does that work?
Thanks in advance.