Intel Sightings in ESXi Bundled Microcode Patches for VMSA-2018-0004 (52345)
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/15
If you’ve installed this patch [WayBack] Intel Sightings in ESXi Bundled Microcode Patches for VMSA-2018-0004 (52345), then please read the article if your processor is affected by microcode updates in it.
To inspect which processor is in your machine, please see:
- [WayBack] How to get ESXi CPU model through command line?? |VMware Communities
- [WayBack] Checking cpuinfo information on an ESXi host (1031785)
On my system, this was enough:
vim-cmd hostsvc/hostsummary | grep cpuModel
vim-cmd hostsvc/hosthardware | grep -w -A7 "cpuPkg\|cpuFeature" | grep "description\|eax\|ebx\|ecx\|edx\|vendor"The above statements are based on:
I was lucky, but for now, ESXi has retracted it.
So please disregard my previous post VMware ESXi 6.5.0 Patch History.
–jeroen
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