You can view and click the related patch from the notification service. You are then directed to the environment page where you can view a detailed set of information pertaining to all the patches.

Procedure

  1. Click Lifecycle Operations, navigate to Settings > Binary Mappings.
  2. Click Patch Binaries.
  3. To map a patch offline, download the patch from the Broadcom Support Portal portal and place it in the data folder in VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle appliance, and then map the offline patch using the local folder option in VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle UI.
    To download a patch from the Broadcom Support Portal:
    1. Log in to the Broadcom Support Portal and from the My Dashboard view, select VMware Cloud Foundation.
    2. Go to My Downloads and select VMware Aria Universal or VMware Aria Suite.
    3. Navigate to Solutions. Expand the options and click Subscription.
    4. From the list of product support packs and patches that appear, filter to find the patch and click to open the download page. In your filter for the patch name, look for vrslcm-8.##.0-PatchX.patch where 8.## is the VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle version and X is the patch number.
  4. To check if there are patches available on the internet, click CHECK PATCHES ONLINE.
  5. Trigger the patch install from the product card in the environment page.
  6. Select the patch from the list of downloaded patches.
    The patches must be downloaded from the Product Binaries page. Only the downloaded patches are listed here.
  7. Click Next.
  8. Review and Install the available patch and click Finish.
    The patch install request progress can be tracked under Requests.
  9. To view the history of patches, click Patches > History.
  10. To view patch history from the Environment page, click Patch History.