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VSPC - Patching both VEM & VBR

  • June 17, 2025
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Chris.Childerhose
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Anyone using VSPC to patch VBR servers - is there a way to have it patch VEM first and then VBR or is VEM a manual process then use VSPC to patch just VBR?

We are moving towards automation and VSPC is a great way to patch/update servers which I am exploring due to the recent 12.3.2 patch that came out.

Any insight is appreciated.

Best answer by Chris.Childerhose

@Chris.Childerhose Not tested with VEM patching yet but we used to patch tenant VBR servers from VSPC console and it works well all the time. You can select multiple VBR servers and patch them all at once. 

Thanks for the input.  Yeah my goal is to patch most of them in one go once we have our change process ticket submitted.

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  • June 17, 2025

Hi Chris,

We're facing the same situation, and so far, we haven’t found a way to automate the update process for VEM and VBR.

At the moment, we use VSPC to download the ISO to all tenant servers as a pre-step. After that, we perform the updates manually.

If anyone has found a better approach, I’d be very happy to try it out—especially with the new update that just came out.

 

 


Chris.Childerhose
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  • June 17, 2025

Yeah I am running the VEM upgrade manually on my homelab server and then will test the VBR upgrade from VSPC.  I want to have this automated even somewhat for my team to do the upgrades.

Hopefully someone though has found some janky workaround.  🤣


Mohamed Ali
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  • June 17, 2025

@Chris.Childerhose Not tested with VEM patching yet but we used to patch tenant VBR servers from VSPC console and it works well all the time. You can select multiple VBR servers and patch them all at once. 


Chris.Childerhose
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  • June 17, 2025

@Chris.Childerhose Not tested with VEM patching yet but we used to patch tenant VBR servers from VSPC console and it works well all the time. You can select multiple VBR servers and patch them all at once. 

Thanks for the input.  Yeah my goal is to patch most of them in one go once we have our change process ticket submitted.


Stabz
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  • June 18, 2025

Hey, Nice topic I was looking for the same. It could be interresting to have an indication when a VBR is linked to a VEM in the VSPC.


Chris.Childerhose
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  • June 18, 2025

Hey, Nice topic I was looking for the same. It could be interresting to have an indication when a VBR is linked to a VEM in the VSPC.

There is an indication when trying to update and also you can filter by VEM servers as well to see.  😉

Found that the silent installation with XML file works well to get VEM installed then use VSPC for VBR.