I've been out of touch with the ESX community for a while as I worked on a 6 month project, but I've freed up some time and can work on more fun stuff again ( yay ).
Anyway, I've written a script to take care of one of the more tedious parts of ESX v3, patching. I was inspired by this gentleman (http://virtrix.blogspot.com/2007/03/vmware-autopatching-your-esx-host.html), but his process didn't quite fit all my needs. I wanted something that would work via ftp, and all check the integrity of the patches before they were installed. The result is this:
Script:
http://www.vmprofessional.com/material/esx-autopatch.pl
Pre-compiled patchlist.txt
http://www.vmprofessional.com/material/3.0.1/patchlist.txt
http://www.vmprofessional.com/material/3.0.0/patchlist.txt
If you like it, please drop me a line at dominic@vmprofessional.com, if you don't like it email me and let me know \*why* you don't like it.
Cheers,
Dominic