You can apply
patch baselines to hosts. Depending on the patch criteria you select, patch
baselines can be either dynamic or fixed.
Patch data in dynamic
baselines changes depending on the criteria you specify each time Update
Manager downloads new patches. Fixed baselines contain only the patches you
have selected, regardless of new patch downloads.
Prerequisites
Verify that you are connected
to a
vCenter
Server
system.
Procedure
1 | Retrieve all host
patches released after 1 Jan 2015 for
ESXi products,
and create a fixed baseline named
Static
Baseline, containing the retrieved patches.
$patches = Get-Patch -After "1 Jan 2015" -Product "ESXi"
$staticBaseline = New-PatchBaseline -Static -Name "Static Baseline" -IncludePatch $patches
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2 | Create a critical
dynamic baseline named
Dynamic
Baseline by using a fetch-all query.
$criticalPatchBaseline = New-PatchBaseline -Dynamic -Name "Dynamic Baseline" -SearchPatchSeverity Critical
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3 | Create an extension
baseline that contains all available extensions.
$extensions = Get-Patch -BundleType Extension
New-PatchBaseline -Static -Name "Extension Baseline" -Extension -IncludePatch $extensions
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