http://www.boche.net/blog/index.php/2009/04/11/new-esxi-35-security-patch-released-scenarios-and-installation-notes/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:05:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.boche.net/blog/index.php/2009/04/11/new-esxi-35-security-patch-released-scenarios-and-installation-notes/comment-page-1/#comment-763 Allen Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:51:12 +0000 http://www.boche.net/blog/?p=1314#comment-763 One thing to add to the list of things to consider in the ESX vs. ESXi debate is that while this particular patch requires a reboot with ESXi, I've found that patching ESXi in generall is waaaay faster than ESX (when using Update Manager anyway). For example, going from U3 to U4 is so much faster on ESXi as it is just a couple of "firmware" updates and a reboot and you are all done. On ESX, there are several patchs to install (26 of them I believe) before that reboot. We generally stick to only patching with the major updates unless a critical security patch (like this one) comes out. So in the long run, ESXi may patch faster for us. Note that we only use ESXi in the lab right now to get some exposure to it prior to maybe using it full-time with vSphere. We shall see soon enough... One thing to add to the list of things to consider in the ESX vs. ESXi debate is that while this particular patch requires a reboot with ESXi, I’ve found that patching ESXi in generall is waaaay faster than ESX (when using Update Manager anyway). For example, going from U3 to U4 is so much faster on ESXi as it is just a couple of “firmware” updates and a reboot and you are all done. On ESX, there are several patchs to install (26 of them I believe) before that reboot. We generally stick to only patching with the major updates unless a critical security patch (like this one) comes out. So in the long run, ESXi may patch faster for us. Note that we only use ESXi in the lab right now to get some exposure to it prior to maybe using it full-time with vSphere. We shall see soon enough…

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