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VmWare ESXi Update

• Turn on Maintenance Mode - Or you can just be sure to manually shutdown all the VMs gracefully.

• OPTIONAL Reboot (Pro Tip). Consider rebooting your ESXi server.

• Open an SSH session (eg. PuTTY) to your ESXi server.

• esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r httpClient

• esxcli software sources profile list -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml | grep -i ESXi-6.7

• esxcli software profile update -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml -p ESXi-6.7.0-8169922-standard –dry-run

• esxcli software profile update -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml -p ESXi-6.7.0-8169922-standard

• esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e false -r httpClient

• reboot

If not working try to install the ZIP file local. (check the zip-file for the current filename in profiles). Connect to the VMWare Deport on https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch#search

Than upgrade via the console with:

esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-6.7.0-20190604001-standard -d /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/ESXi670-201906002.zip

Reboot

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