Initiating a Bulletin Deployment to an ESXi Hypervisor

  1. In the vCenter Servers list or the ESXi Hypervisors list, select the desired ESXi hypervisor.
  2. On the Bulletins tab, select the desired bulletin(s).
    You can deploy an individual bulletin, multiple bulletins, or all missing bulletins to a single ESXi hypervisor.
  3. Click either Deploy latest security bulletins or Deploy selected bulletins.
    • Deploy latest security bulletins: Initiates the deployment of the latest security patches approved by VMware that are missing on the ESXi hypervisor. This will include only those security bulletins that have not been replaced by newer bulletins.
    • Select Only show latest to see which bulletins will be deployed if you click Deploy latest security bulletins.

    • Deploy selected bulletins: Initiates the deployment of the selected bulletins.

This will launch the ESXi Hypervisor Deployment dialog, which you will use to configure the deployment.