I have a couple of curious (probably dumb) questions on maintainence mode (esxi ver 51).
- What exactly does it do?
- What happens if you run the patch command similar to "esxcli software vib install -d /vmfs/volumes/datastore/patch_zipfile.zip" without putting it in maintenance mode?
- What happens if you do put it in maintainece mode, install the patch, then take it out of maintainence mode before you reboot? The reason behind it is so that the virtual machines will autostart.
These are just curious rhetorical questions.
Thanks!
Arch