As a best practice, we should keep all the server patch with latest update. This tutorial tells i will demonstrate how to patch your Debian server with the latest updates. You need to use either apt-get command or apt command to apply patches to Debian Linux server.
Step:
i. Connect to your Debian system via SSH. Once you are in the terminal, enter the following commands:-
apt-get update
apt-get update command is used to download package information from all configured sources
Due to most recenty VMware released two vulnerabilities in vCenter Server as well as VMware ESXi hypervisor, we received a lot of customer request us to perform vCenter and Hypervisor patching.
Below are the table show fixed vCenter version
| Affected Product Version | Fixed Version |
| vCenter Server 6.5 | 6.5 U3n |
| vCenter Server 6.7 | 6.7 U3l |
| vCenter Server 7.0 | 7.0 U1c |
Here i going to write the simple vCenter patching tutorial to demonstrate the steps.
Download vCenter Server Patch
Download the Patched from VMware product patches page – https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch#search
After that, upload it to a local or shared datastore.
Continue readingI failed to login to vCenter Server Appliance Management interface (VAMI), and received following error message (Exception in invoking authentication handler User password expired.)
Root caused: root password for VAMI is expired.
Solution:
Access VAMI via ssh, and change the root password.
Steps:-
2. Check root user password status
3. Change root password
Now you should able to access Management Interface (VAMI)
(https://<VC FQDN>:5480)
