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If you already know the deal, feel free to skip ahead. This information could have easily been a post in itself, but if you are new to image profiles and the online depot, it may prove beneficial to be all in one place. Let’s start with that overview on image profiles and how to distinguish them in the online depot. If you are unfamiliar with the VMware Online Depot, it’s an online repository that provides access to a set of VIBs and image profiles. In addition, I will discuss how to differentiate image profiles within the depot. In this tutorial, we will upgrade an ESXi host from 6.0 to 6.5 using VMware Online Depot. However, if you do not employ VUM, hosts can also be upgraded via ESXCLi commands using an online repository. Reboot when update complete ( reboot command).Īfter updating install any patches using Update Manager (and patching baseline).A few months back, we discussed how to upgrade ESXi hosts using VMware Update Manager. List profile use by update file: esxcli software sources profile list -d /vmfs/volumes/6eb032ff-4925571e/VMware-ESXi-6.7.0.update03-14320380814.zip

Reboot after deleting the vib ( reboot command). (note: substitute your datastore volume id for example 6eb032ff-4925571e)įails with error (ERROR: ValueError: VIBs ELX_bootbank_elx-esx-libelxima.so_.0-03 and ELX_bootbank_elx-esx-libelxima.so_.0-03 have unequal values of the 'payloads' attribute: '' != '').Ĭheck the failing vib is installed: esxcli software vib list | grep elxĭelete the failing vib: esxcli software vib remove -n elx-esx-libelxima.so Try installing update using command: esxcli software vib update -d /vmfs/volumes/6eb032ff-4925571e/VMware-ESXi-6.7.0.update03-14320380814.zip

Upload offline updater file (example previously downloaded from hardware provider Lenovo's website) to datastore accessible from host.

If update failed from Update Manager then SSH to ESXi host to manually update. When complete take host out of Maintenance Mode. Use “ Remediate” (selecting upgrade baseline). VMotion off any running VMs and then put host into Maintenance Mode. On “ Update” tab “ Attach” Baseline (Upgrade baseline previously created) to host. There are two methods for upgrading a ESXi host – either using VCenter Update Manager or via command line.