Administrator Guide

• Upgrade virtual machine hardware, VMware Tools, and virtual appliances

4.2 Quick Boot with VUM

VUM leverages Quick boot feature to reduce the time required for ESXi maintenance workflows by

reducing the reboot time of ESXi hosts. The steps below are to be followed to utilize Quick Boot for a patch

upgrade using VUM. A patch could be anything (ESXi patches, VIBs) which needs a system reboot. Quick

Boot is enabled by default in VUM. To see the settings, traverse to “Update manager -> Host & Cluster

settings -> Enable Quick Boot”.

Figure 7 : VMware Update Manager Quick Boot Setting

Refer to vSphere Update Manager and Installation guide for more information on how to make use of

Quick Boot in VUM. Refer to sections such as “Quick Boot Setting for Optimizing Host Patch and Host

Upgrade Operations” and “System Requirements for Using Quick Boot During Remediation”

5 Testing and Observations

This section provides details on some of the hardware configurations Dell EMC have tested Quick

Boot and the tips to use Quick Boot on standalone servers which is not managed by VUM.

5.1 Hardware Configuration Under Test

Below table gives an overview of the hardware under test.

Component

Model

Server

Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd

CPU

2 X Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6126 CPU @

2.60GHz

Memory

12 X 32GB DDR4

BIOS

Storage Controller

Dell HBA330