Overview As with any system running software, you are going to have to apply patches to it at some point and VMware is no different. VMware recommends customers install all security patches to maximize the protection that VMware provides. For a list of all security patches, you can go here https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch#search. Login with your myvmware credentials. Once it has been determined patches are available for ESXi, download the offline bundle so they can be pushed out to each VMware host as needed.

Accommodate growth of a VM by expanding an LVM partition At some point, a “physical volume” may have to be enlarged to accommodate growth on a VM. This is how you grow the filesystem of an existing VMDK without adding an additional disk to your VM. Enlarging a VMDK login to VMware Find the VM with the disk that needs to be made larger Right click and select “Edit Settings” Find the specific Hard Disk and update the capacity to the desired size Click “Ok” Expanding the VM Volume Size In most cases, the “Physical Volume” information will not be updated automatically.