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Prerequisites
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If you are staging patches from an ISO image that you previously downloaded from
https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch, you must attach the ISO image to the CD/DVD drive of
the vCenter Server Appliance. You can configure the ISO image as a datastore ISO file for the
CD/DVD drive of the appliance by using the vSphere Web Client. See vSphere Virtual Machine
Administration.
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If you are staging patches from a remote repository, verify that you have configured the repository
settings and that the current repository URL is accessible. See Configure URL-Based Patching.
Procedure
1 Access the appliance shell and log in as a user who has a super administrator role.
The default user with a super administrator role is root.
2 Stage the patches.
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To stage the patches included in the attached ISO image, run the following command:
software-packages stage --iso
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To stage the patches included in the current repository URL, run the following command:
software-packages stage --url
By default the current repository URL is the default VMware repository URL.
If you want to stage only the third-party patches, use the --thirdParty option.
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To stage the patches included in a repository URL that is not currently configured in the
appliance, run the following command:
software-packages stage --url URL_of_the_repository
If you want to stage only the third-party patches, use the --thirdParty option.
If you want to directly accept the End User License Agreement, use the --acceptEulas option.
For example, to stage only the third-party patches from the current repository URL with directly
accepting the End User License Agreement, run the following command:
software-packages stage --url --thirdParty --acceptEulas
In the process of staging, the command validates that a patch is a VMware patch, that the staging
area has enough free space, and that the patches are not altered. Only completely new patches or
patches for existing packages that can be upgraded are staged.
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