Most of the time you would want to use VMware Update Manager when doing upgrade. Its part of vCenter and is necessary tool when having to maintain your environment. But for smaller deployments, with standalone hosts and no vCenter the following upgrade methods are desired and can help the upgrade time. Instead of having to upgrade with IPMI and an ISO.
# esxcli software sources profile list -depot=/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/Patches/update-from-esxi6.7-6.7update02.zip Name Vendor Acceptance Level Creation Time. Esxcli software profile update-d / absolute / path / to / zip / file-p name-of-profile. Usually the VMware page where I download the patch from mentions the profile name, but today I had a patch file and wanted to find the list of profiles it had. Esxcli software sources profile list-d / absolute / path / to / zip / file. Screenshot example. Hi, We are patching our esxi hosts and would like to know if both 1s & 1 profiles need to be applied? Esxcli software sources.
This method is for getting the update online, no need to download ISO/offline bundles, etc. This will work for most of the upgrade use cases.
1: Connect to your ESXi host via the host client and enable SSH. Afterward ssh to the ESXi host and enable ESXi firewall rule to allow the host to access the internet.
2: With the beneath command you will get a list of available ESXi packaged that are on the VMware repos. Enter this command to list all available profiles. We filter only those which are relevant to our case – upgrade to ESXi 6.7
3. Chose the desired profile and use the following command for choosing and upgrading the ESXi version. Before upgrade its a good idea to enter maintenance mode.
4. After it’s done, you will need to restart the host, after its rebooted you will run on the new ESXi version.
Custom, with Offline bundle:
This method is for when you desire to install a custom update, or that your hosts down have access to the internet.
1: Download the offline bundle from the VMware webpage, in this upgrade I will use an HPE custom version. But if you run a generic version, that will also work.
2: After downloading the “VMware-ESXi-6.7.0-8169922-depot.zip” file, place it (upload it) to a datastore which is visible by your ESXi host. Best would be a local datastore if this host has some. If not, it can also be a shared datastore too.
3: Find the profile name from the depot offline bundle
Put your host into maintenance mode, enable SSH if you haven’t done yet.
3: Execute this command to upgrade your ESXi 6.x to 6.7
After checking that your upgrade was successful, reboot your host. Software engineering 10th edition pdf. You should see a message saying that the upgrade completed successfully.
Troubleshooting
I have tried to get an error with:
Esxcli Software Profile List
Failed updating the bootloader: Execution of command /usr/lib/vmware/bootloader-installer/install-bootloader failed: non-zero code returned…. return code: 1”
Error when upgrading, due to “insufficient space”.
This problem is due to the SWAP is but on the installation of the ESXi, not a good thing. So let’s change it.
Go to the UI of the ESXi Hosts https://IP/ui, login and proceed to the following:
Manage > System > Swap > Edit Settings
Chose the dropdown and select a datastore. Apply and the swap space is not freed from the ESXi install device so that you can try to upgrade again.
Conclusion:
After the upgrade, it’s a good idea to disable the ESXi firewall rule for “HTTP outside access”. Stop and disable SSH again, but it’s optional ?
Now you should have an upgraded host.
I was cleaning out a few of my to-do items (list just keeps getting longer everyday) this morning and there was a question that I received a few weeks back asking how to retrieve the list of Image Profiles for a given ESXi patch. This is actually quite easy and you will want to use ESXCLI.
Note: Xskey logic 7 crack. The examples shown below is using ESXCLI on the ESXi Shell, but these commands can be execute remotely as well using ESXCLI or through PowerCLI with Get-EsxCli cmdlet.
To list the available Image Profiles for an ESXi patch, run the following command (ensure you substitute the full path to your ESXi patch): Avery label template 8660 for mac 10.
esxcli software sources profile list -d /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/ESXi510-201212001.zip
To get more details on a particular Image Profile, run the following command and specify the -p for the specific Image Profile:
esxcli software sources profile get -d /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/ESXi510-201212001.zip -p ESXi-5.1.0-20121204001-no-tools
To install/update a specific Image Profile, run the following command with the Image Profile name:
Esxcli Software Sources Profile List Metadatadownloaderror
If you just want to install the ESXi patch, run the following command which will install the esx-base Image Profile by default which will include everything: