What we just found out is the fact that there is also a VIB package which you can download. Even if your cluster has only hosts, it's worth to use VUM. Each new release of VMware tools is an improvement of functionality which did not work in the previous release. In this release, for example, VMware remediated some issues where for example the guest OS did not recognize UFS filesystem partitions.
Or a black screen in a VM when connecting with View client. Those issues were resolved in this new release. There are few others. Check the full release notes. The command is the same as we use for upgrading ESXi via offline depot. The package is called offline depot. By importing new patches from the Online repo or from a ZIP file, you basically creating a Custom baseline which will then be applied to the host. Fix a couple of issues in the startup script that might cause an error when updating the VIB on a live system.
Improvements to Autostart configuration - ability to configure per-VM settings, make the operations more clear. Fix permissions dialog issue in Safari. Improved validation on scheduling affinity field in VM editor. Optimizations to Navigator when loading object counts. Allow selection of USB 3. Address navigator object name display issue in Firefox on Linux. Better error reporting when uploading an OVA fails due to a disk upload failure.
Fix datastore rename notification. Fix an issue when removing USB devices from a virtual machine. Add ability to show virtual machine performance metrics on host monitoring charts. Catch accidental double clicks in context menus. Add support for virtual disk sharing configuration. Fix issue where VM list does not update when filters are applied and VM states change. Fix an issue where double clicking on a VM console in Firefox would create drag and resize handles on the canvas.
Add checkbox to disable automatic VM power on after deployment, allowing hardware configuration. Display discovered subnets on the physical NIC summary page if available. Update localization catalogs.
Fix a couple of bugs in init script leading to incorrect behavior when saving Host Client settings. Add a Host Summary warning when the host's license has expired. Refresh the datastore metrics when the host summary loads. Change Network chart units to bits per second. Show an error when trying to upload a file larger than 4GB using Internet Explorer. Ignore missing datastores when editing a VM, e. Disable application session timeout while support bundle is generating.
Fix a crash on refresh in the Physical NIC summary page. Better hardware sensor data, including translations of discrete values. Include sensor last updated time. Sort the sensor list by health so red sensors are at the top of the table. Add a VM's datastores to the VM list columns. Add quickfilters to the VM list and the Advanced settings list. Fix width of checkbox column in VM list. Support for inflating thin provisioned disks to thick provisioned. Access is from within the datastore browser by right-clicking on a disk file.
Support NFS 4. Fix a rare crash in Firefox related to showing the VM screen shot. Fix issue when clicking Refresh on the datastore list which would result in stale data being presented. Fix an issue validating some paths that contain unicode characters. Fix truncation of vswitch name in portgroup list when vswitch name contains a dash. Addressed an issue deploying very large OVA files.
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