8Managing Compliance

CERTIFICATION OBJECTIVES

8.01 Configure and Manage VMware vCenter Update Manager

8.02 Establish and Apply ESx Host Profiles

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Welcome to Chapter 8. In this chapter we will review the methods that VMware provides with vSphere to help us keep our ESX Hosts and virtual machines in compliance when it comes to patch management and consistent configurations. We will take a deeper look at the vCenter add-on, vCenter Update Manager, which we installed in Chapter 4, and you will learn how to use it to perform patch management for our ESX Hosts and virtual machines. You will then learn about Host Profiles ...

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