YES VC is backwards compatible the most current will manage your hosts.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Leone [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 02, 2010 2:38 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: VMware upgrade question - update shows no updates
available?

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Martin Blackstone
<[email protected]> wrote:
> When you upgrade VC, it should at some point ask you if you want to
install
> Update Manager. Say yes, install.

OK. I just downloaded VC v2.5 Update 6. I should be able to upgrade to
that now, even thought all my ESX hosts are at 3.5 Update 4, right?
That should get me the Update Manager.

> Then run VC and go to Plug Ins, and add it in.
> You will probably need to give it time download the updates (like
overnight
> or whatever schedule you set it for).
> After that's all happened, right click on each host and select scan
for
> updates and let it do that.
> Finally after all that has happened, you can remediate which means to
> install the updates.

Thanks. I will start that now.

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