Ironically enough, shortly after posting Using VCF's Async Patch Tool on Windows I was contacted by a VMware colleague who had seen the post. As it turns out, his team at VMware had been working on including PowerShell as an option for the Async Patch Tool. Big shout out to Ryan Johnson over at VMware... Continue Reading →

When using VMware Cloud Foundation's Async Patch Tool there are two different methods that can be used depending on the environment's connectivity to the internet - the offline method and the online method. The online method is relatively straight forward and is extracted into the SDDC Manager virtual machine and SDDC Manager which allows the... Continue Reading →

What is the Async Patch Tool? VMware released the async patch tool in 2022 as a way to apply component patching in a more flexible manner. As stated in the tool's release notes - The Async Patch Tool is a utility that allows you to apply critical patches to certain VMware Cloud Foundation components (NSX... Continue Reading →