Upload the offline bundle into a datastore, (that the host to be upgraded has access to!) While in here, shut down the guest VMs on this host, and put the host into ‘ maintenance mode‘.
Solution 1: Use an ‘Offline Bundle’ updateįirstly, you need a copy of the appropriate ‘offline bundle’ update, below you can see this is the customised one for HPE servers. licences, vSwitches (standard and distributed), certificates etc. AND IT RETAINS ALL THE HOST SETTINGS, i.e. Still, if you have a vendor modified copy of ESX what do you do? Well the following procedures will work for any version of the software, either vanilla VMware or HP/Dell/IBM etc.
Well that’s great but if you are using a custom ESXi image, the process won’t even start, you simply get warned that this won’t work, as it will break all the vendor specific drivers/software, (which is a good thing I suppose, the warning I mean, not the breaking things!) Esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r httpClientĮsxcli software profile install -p ESXi-6.5.0-20170702001-standard -d
