I have inherited 2 servers with VMware ESXi 5.5.0 Update 1 on and want to get them fully updated\patched. In vSphere Client when I look at the Summary of the host the 'Image Profile' shows as '(Updated) HP-ESXi-5.5.0-Update1 -iso-5.73.21'
I assume, from the table below, that I just need to update to ESXi 5.5 Update 3b (presumably this is a roll up of all fixes up to this release?) and then apply the patches 8 - 11 in order and it will then be up to date?
I wanted to check 3 things:
1. That I can go from 5.5 update 1 to 5.5 update 3b without doing other updates in between
2. Can I install Patch 8, Express Patch 9, Express Patch 10 and Express Patch 11 only and in that order or does Express Patch 11 have a roll up of everything from Patch 8 (from what I understand it doesn't but want to check)
3. Should I use the HPE specific installers where possible as the machines are HP and the Image Profile at the moment seems to indicate that a HP installer was used?
| ESXi 5.5 Express Patch 11 | ESXi550-201703001 | 2017-03-28 | 5230635 |
| ESXi 5.5 Patch 10 (Security only) | ESXi550-201612001 | 2016-12-20 | 4756874 |
| ESXi 5.5 Patch 10 | ESXi550-201612001 | 2016-12-20 | 4722766 |
| ESXi 5.5 Patch 9 | ESXi550-201609001 | 2016-09-15 | 4345813 |
| ESXi 5.5 Patch 9 (Security only) | ESXi550-201609001 | 2016-09-15 | 4345810 |
| ESXi 5.5 Patch 8 | ESXi550-201608001 | 2016-08-04 | 4179633 |
| ESXi 5.5 Patch 8 (Security only) | ESXi550-201608001 | 2016-08-04 | 4179631 |
| ESXi 5.5 Express Patch 10 | ESXi550-201602001 | 2016-02-21 | 3568722 |
| ESXi 5.5 Express Patch 9 | ESXi550-201601001 | 2016-01-04 | 3343343 |
| ESXi 5.5 Update 3b | ESXi550-201512001 | 2015-12-08 | 3248547 |
I'm sure the answers are obvious but I've not been involved in the patching of ESXi servers previously.