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This is a very nice way to easily upgrade your ESXi hosts without having to go into the ESXi Shell or enable SSH. If you have more than one or two hosts, I definitely recommend uploading the extracted offline bundle onto a webserver or a shared vSphere Datastore which you can the access from multiple ESXi hosts.
Vidpaw please enter an accessible url update#
If you are interested in viewing the update logs without having to log in via SSH, you can click on the "Monitor" tab of the Host option and under "Logs", click on /var/log/esxupdate.log to see the progress. Once the task has completed, you will need to reboot the ESXi host for the changes to take effect.
Vidpaw please enter an accessible url install#
Step 4 - Once you click the "Update" button, you will be asked to confirm and then you should see task kicked off called " Install Host Patch V2". Or you can specify an HTTP(s) URL to the metadata.zip like the following: You can either specify a local datastore path to the metadata.zip such as the following: Step 3 - Click on the "Help" menu on the upper right hand corner of the Embedded Host Client and select the "Update" option which should prompt you to specify a URL. This is something I have reported internally and hopefully will be fixed in a future update. Step 2 - You will need to extract the contents of the offline bundle and then upload the content to either a vSphere Datastore or an HTTP accessible URL as shown in the screenshots below.Ĭurrently it is not possible to upload an entire directory using the Datastore Browser with EHC. Step 1 - Download ESXi offline bundle of choice, in this example we are downloading the offline bundle for ESXi 6.0 Update 1: Here is an example of using EHC v4 to upgrade an ESXi 6.0 host to ESXi 6.0 Update 1:
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With the latest release, Etienne has expanded its functionality to not only allow for a VIB URL but also a metadata.zip URL which ESXi offline bundles contain. In the previous release of EHC, you could install or patch any ESXi VIB using this interface which I had blogged about here. It looks like we just got an early Christmas gift from Etienne, George and the VMware Flings team with the release of v4 of the ESXi Embedded Host Client (EHC). One of the new features that I am most excited about is the ability to upgrade ESXi itself using the "Update" feature which was first introduced in EHC v3.