When trying to update a number of hosts in the ESXi cluster of a customer I first ran into the issue that scanning the host for updates would result in the following error: “Could not scan esx12 for patches”. Searching through the VMware KB I learned that this is probably due to a corrupted scratch partition […]
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Changing patch location of VMware Update Manager
While installing Virtual Center for the first time, I accepted most default settings. After I started using VMware Update Manager, I received errors about lack of diskspace. Turns out that all patches are stored in c:\documents and settings\ something \ something. This ofcourse isn’t what I wanted. I could have selected a different location during […]