Hello, I was just wondering, Do you have a policy for updating eSXI hosts? Drawing from their recommendations at the following KB article it would seem that VMware suggest that updates are applied very quickly after release however as we all know, What software prociders suggest and what is viable are two very different things. I applied a patch on Friday to an ESXI cluster that was only four days old. Quite rightly, it was flagged this morning by someone else here as being a possible risk. http://www.vmware.com/support/policies/upgrade.html It just got me thinking, the list for checking and unchecking updates isn't the cleanest thing out there. It's very easy to let an update through that is only out a few days. 1. Do you bother checking release dates? 2. If so, what is your policy? Do you leave updates to settle for a month? 3. If you don't install some updates, What method have you developed to distinguish bleeding edge updates? Thanks. I'm going to be asked about this in a meeting on wednesday so it would be interesting to have others opinions. Of course, I should have caught the patch that was four days old so, it's entirely my fault but as luck would have it, it hasn't caused any problems. Their arguement will be, well, it could have. It hasn't been out in the wild long enough to be tested by the eSXI user base. Regards Darragh Ó Héiligh Fujitsu Offices of the Houses of the Oireachtas, Fredrick Building, South Fredrick Street, Dublin2 Telephone: +353 (1) 618 3559 Email: darragh.oheiligh@oireachtas.ie Internet: http://www.oireachtas.ie Oireachtas email policy and disclaimer. http://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/about/oireachtasemailpolicyanddisclaimer... Beartas ríomhphoist an Oireachtais agus séanadh. http://www.oireachtas.ie/parliament/ga/eolas/beartasriomhphoistanoireachtais...