Month: October 2015

Download the the offline bundle (depot file) for ESXi 6.0 from here
filename VMware-ESXi-6.0.0-2494585-depot.zip

Activate SSH, shut down all your VMs and enter maintenance mode

Upload the file to your datastore

Note: If you run the command with “install” switch, all your personalized drivers of officially unsupported NICs will be deleted. You might consider using the second command with the “update” switch instead (you can add option –dry-run to perform a dry-run only)

esxcli software profile update -d /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/VMware-ESXi-6.0.0-2494585-depot.zip -p ESXi-6.0.0-2494585-standard

 

 

more info

Patch ESXi 5.5 to ESXi 6.0 – Lab Time

ESXi Offline Bundle Download – To Upgrade ESXi

Download the the offline bundle (depot file) for ESXi 5.1 from here
filename VMware-ESXi-5.1.0-799733-depot.zip

Activate SSH, shut down all your VMs and enter maintenance mode

Upload the file to your datastore

Note: If you run the command with “install” switch, all your personalized drivers of officially unsupported NICs will be deleted. You might consider using the second command with the “update” switch instead (you can add option –dry-run to perform a dry-run only)

esxcli software profile update -d /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/VMware-ESXi-5.1.0-799733-depot.zip -p ESXi-5.1.0-799733-standard

For upgrading to ESXi 5.5:
esxcli software profile update -d /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/VMware-ESXi-5.5.0-1331820-depot.zip -p ESXi-5.5.0-1331820-standard –dry-run

more info

ESXi Free – how to upgrade to ESXi 5.1

VMWare: Update Standalone ESXi 5.0 to 5.1 Using a Depot Zip File

 

you may got error like this:
[DependencyError]
VIB Broadcom_bootbank_scsi-bnx2i_2.70.1k.v50.2-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 requires com .broadcom.cnic_register-9.2.0.0, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile.
VIB Broadcom_bootbank_net-cnic_1.11.18.v50.1-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 requires com.b roadcom.cnic_register-9.2.0.0, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within th e ImageProfile.
VIB Broadcom_bootbank_net-bnx2x_1.70.34.v50.1-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 requires com. broadcom.cnic_register-9.2.0.0, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within t he ImageProfile.
VIB Broadcom_bootbank_net-bnx2_2.1.12b.v50.3-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 requires com.b roadcom.cnic_register-9.2.0.0, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within th e ImageProfile.
Please refer to the log file for more details.

one option is to run upgrade with -install option instead -update option.
or you may run:
esxcli software vib remove –vibname=scsi-bnx2i
esxcli software vib remove –vibname=net-cnic
esxcli software vib remove –vibname=net-bnx2x
esxcli software vib remove –vibname=net-bnx2

type reboot…

start upgrade process again…

reboot

exit maintenance mode
more info on:
https://communities.vmware.com/thread/482214?start=15&tstart=0

Download latest patch from VMware ESXi 5.0.0
http://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/download.portal

for ESXi 5.0.0 latest patch (at time when writing this is) is
ESXi500-201510001 build number 3086167
filename ESXi500-201510001.zip

upload this file to ESXi datastore

put the host into Maintenance mode

enable SSH via vSphere client via configuration > Security Profile > Properties > SSH

Connect via SSH

Type this command for update: (you can add option –dry-run to perform a dry-run only)
esxcli software vib update -d /vmfs/volumes/<your_datastore>/ESXi500-201510001.zip

when update is finished type reboot or reboot via vSphere client

after reboot you can check build number
esxcli system version get