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VmWare ESXi Update

1. Turn on Maintenance Mode - Or you can just be sure to manually shutdown all the VMs gracefully.
2. OPTIONAL Reboot (Pro Tip). Consider rebooting your ESXi server.
3. Open an SSH session (eg. PuTTY) to your ESXi server.
4. esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r httpClient.
5. esxcli software sources profile list –depot=https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml | grep ESXi-6.X
6. esxcli software profile update -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml -p ESXi-6.7.0-8169922-standard –dry-run
7. esxcli software profile update -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml -p ESXi-6.7.0-8169922-standard
8. esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e false -r httpClient
9. reboot

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