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You can follow these steps to add the plugin.<br />
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<a href="https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.update_manager.doc%2FGUID-F2F45A52-1849-4F12-BD22-A22EB3F12C54.html" rel="ugc nofollow">https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.update_manager.doc%2FGUID-F2F45A52-1849-4F12-BD22-A22EB3F12C54.html</a>
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You can follow these steps to add the plugin.

https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.update_manager.doc%2FGUID-F2F45A52-1849-4F12-BD22-A22EB3F12C54.html [https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-51/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.update_manager.doc%2FGUID-F2F45A52-1849-4F12-BD22-A22EB3F12C54.html]

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D'oh ... I had tried to install the Update Manager on Friday but stopped because I got an error message (couldn't write sth into the registry) ... I forgot about that and thought I had it running (there were such folders on my disk ... I didn't check 'installed programs' though or I would have noticed that it wasn't). I deleted the registry key, relaunched the Update Manager install, it worked!<br />
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Monday morning ... zzzz ;)
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D'oh ... I had tried to install the Update Manager on Friday but stopped because I got an error message (couldn't write sth into the registry) ... I forgot about that and thought I had it running (there were such folders on my disk ... I didn't check 'installed programs' though or I would have noticed that it wasn't). I deleted the registry key, relaunched the Update Manager install, it worked!

Monday morning ... zzzz ;)

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Depends on how you define funny! ;)
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Hi,<br />
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I've installed the VMWare Update Manager on a Windows server, how can I use it now with my existing vCenter server appliance infrastructure? I guess I need to connect to that Windows server somehow from my vSphere Client?<br />
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Thank you.
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Hi,

I've installed the VMWare Update Manager on a Windows server, how can I use it now with my existing vCenter server appliance infrastructure? I guess I need to connect to that Windows server somehow from my vSphere Client?

Thank you.

How to use the Update Manager with a vServer appliance?

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.