Specifications

Remediate Hosts Against Baseline Groups
You can remediate hosts against attached groups of upgrade, patch, and extension baselines. Baseline
groups might contain multiple patch and extension baselines, or an upgrade baseline combined with
multiple patch and extension baselines.
You can perform an orchestrated upgrade by using a host baseline group. The upgrade baseline in the
baseline group runs first, followed by patch and extension baselines.
NOTE Alternatively, you can upgrade hosts by using a single upgrade baseline. See “Remediate Hosts
Against an Upgrade Baseline,” on page 108.
Prerequisites
Ensure that at least one baseline group is attached to the host.
Connect the vSphere Client to a vCenter Server system with which Update Manager is registered. If your
vCenter Server system is a part of a connected group in vCenter Linked Mode, specify the Update Manager
instance by selecting the name of the corresponding vCenter Server system in the navigation bar.
Review any scan messages in the Upgrade Details window for potential problems with hardware, third-
party software, and configuration issues that might prevent a successful upgrade or migration to ESXi 5.0.
Procedure
1 On the Home page of the vSphere Client, select Hosts and Clusters and click the Update Manager tab.
2 Right-click the inventory object you want to remediate and select Remediate.
If you select a container object, all hosts under the selected object are remediated.
3 On the Remediation Selection page of the Remediate wizard, select the baseline group and baselines to
apply.
4 (Optional) Select the hosts that you want to remediate and click Next.
If you have chosen to remediate a single host and not a container object, the host is selected by default.
5 On the End User License Agreement page, accept the terms and click Next.
6 (Optional) On the ESXi 5.x Upgrade page, select the option to remove any installed third-party software
modules that are incompatible with the upgrade and to continue with the remediation.
In case any additional third-party modules installed on the hosts are incompatible with the upgrade,
the upgrade remediation does not succeed. To proceed and upgrade to ESXi 5.x your ESX/ESXi hosts
that contain third-party modules by using an ESXi image without the corresponding VIBs, you must
choose to remove the third-party software on the hosts.
7 Click Next.
8 (Optional) On the Patches and Extensions page, deselect specific patches or extensions to exclude them
from the remediation process, and click Next.
9 (Optional) On the Dynamic Patches and Extensions to Exclude page, review the list of patches or
extensions to be excluded and click Next.
10 On the Schedule page, specify a unique name and an optional description for the task.
11 Select Immediately to begin the process immediately after you complete the wizard, or specify a time
for the remediation process to begin, and click Next.
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