Update Manager slow since upgrade to Update 2.

[Mikeluff]

Morning all,

For some reason since I upgraded my VCEN server to Update 2 if I run a scan on one of my ESX hosts for updates, or tell it to remediate it takes a good 5mins or more before it actually starts to do something. Prior to the upgrade this would kick off into life as soon as I told it to go - now it stays in "In progress" for a while before doing anything.

Has anyone seen anything similar?

Thanks

Mike

[Texiwill]

Hello,

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[dbernier]

Hi Mike

I have the same issue here. I was looking for an answer here but I could not find anything listed. I also could find nothing releated to this in the knowledge base.

Anyone else with this issue ????

Dave B

[Mikeluff]

Dave,

Strange one this - never did get the root of it. However I am in the process of migrating from ESX 3.5 to ESX3i and those new installations update faster than ever so I'm guessing it's just a bug with the non-integrated version.

Sorry I couldn't be more help.

Mike

[BrandonJ]

We've seen the same problem since Update 2. I just went to Update 3 on my VC server and am in the process of pushing out ESX 3.5 Update 3 to all of our hosts. Our hosts are all Update 2 (with the license bug patch installed) and it's taking about 8 hours to go through a 7 host cluster! I don't remember how slow the U2 rollout was (just remember it being way slower than pre-U2) but it almost seems like U3 might even be slower. As anybody gotten anywhere on this?

[jslarouche]

I am currently in the process of upgrading all our ESX host to Update 3 and I am finding VMware Update Manager U3 is very very slow. It's horrible poor but it is getting the job done just very slowly sucks!

[OlivR]

Same problem for me...

[chris]

Ditto here. VC U3 is taking forever to update just one host. Sometimes 10 minutes between install tasks.