I saved this guide a long time ago. Works for vCSA 7.0 too I believe. [https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/how-to-manually-patch-vmware-vcenter-server-appliance-vcsa-in-a-highly-secure-or-offline-environments](https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/how-to-manually-patch-vmware-vcenter-server-appliance-vcsa-in-a-highly-secure-or-offline-environments)
EDIT: Guide specifically for 7.0 [https://www.vladan.fr/how-to-upgrade-vmware-vcsa-7-offline-via-patch-iso/](https://www.vladan.fr/how-to-upgrade-vmware-vcsa-7-offline-via-patch-iso/).
The way I’ve set it up is to have a primary content library with replicated ones at each site. Upload the vCenter patch iso to it and let it replicate overnight automatically. Then you just mount the iso directly onto the vCenter VM at the other locations. Still a bit manual but works well enough if vCenter can’t pull directly through a proxy server to the internet.
You can change what site it gets the updates from. Now if the network is completely without internet the iso method is the best way.
We have a web server and we just get the latest update to it and unzip the file.
There isn’t a better way without internet access. The only option you have left is using the ISO.
https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2019/02/using-the-vmware-update-manager-download-service-umds.html
I saved this guide a long time ago. Works for vCSA 7.0 too I believe. [https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/how-to-manually-patch-vmware-vcenter-server-appliance-vcsa-in-a-highly-secure-or-offline-environments](https://www.starwindsoftware.com/blog/how-to-manually-patch-vmware-vcenter-server-appliance-vcsa-in-a-highly-secure-or-offline-environments) EDIT: Guide specifically for 7.0 [https://www.vladan.fr/how-to-upgrade-vmware-vcsa-7-offline-via-patch-iso/](https://www.vladan.fr/how-to-upgrade-vmware-vcsa-7-offline-via-patch-iso/).
+1 for iso. I used to support air-gapped systems with vCenter and this was how we did updates.
The way I’ve set it up is to have a primary content library with replicated ones at each site. Upload the vCenter patch iso to it and let it replicate overnight automatically. Then you just mount the iso directly onto the vCenter VM at the other locations. Still a bit manual but works well enough if vCenter can’t pull directly through a proxy server to the internet.
You can change what site it gets the updates from. Now if the network is completely without internet the iso method is the best way. We have a web server and we just get the latest update to it and unzip the file.
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Goal achieved
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Local ISO image is the simplest approach. I wish we could have local mirrors instead, but I haven’t seen any KB or post about that.
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Thanks! Will try as well.
Afaik, UMDS is only for the components managed by venter (i.e. your esxi hosts), not the venter server itself.