6.5.1

Stage Patches to the vCenter Server Appliance
Before you install available patches, you can stage the patches to the appliance. You can use the
software-packages utility to stage patches either from a local repository by attaching an ISO image to
the appliance, or from a remote repository directly by using a repository URL.
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
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