To deploy VUM in a vSphere environment, perform the following steps:
- Verify product and database interoperability by using the VMware Product Interoperability matrices.
- Determine the location and type of database to host the VUM database.
- Allocate the required compute and storage resources to support the VUM server.
- Run the vSphere Update Manager Server installation on the Windows server selected for VUM.
- Once it's deployed, use the vSphere Web Client to create baselines and attach hosts and virtual machines to these baselines. The following screenshot provides an example of critical and non-critical host patch baselines associated with a group of hosts:
Critical and non-critical host patch baselines
- Scan for updates and verify compliance with the attached baselines. The following screenshot displays a host in compliance with the attached critical and non-critical patch baselines:
Compliance example in VUM
- Remediate the hosts or VMs that are not in compliance.