Utilizing update manger when unable to vMotion.
I have three Essentials licensed 5.0 hosts and vCenter running on one of them as a VM. All VM is running on local disk. I am tired of patching from CLI and want to utilizing update manger. I can easily do that on the other two host where vCenter is not running but obvious not on the host where it runs.
I have a shared datastore in form of a QNAP NAS but I can’t Storage vMotion due to license restriction. I can’t do a “shared nothing” vMotion to another host due to the same restriction. It seems like a Catch-22 situation.
I have service window where I can power down alle the VM
Anyone have any thoughts about using update manager in this setup or should I just forget about it 