Re: VMware VSphere Hypervisor ESXi 6.0.0U3-5050593 ISO (2017) Download Pc

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It's that time of year when some IT Pros are lucky enough to have a few days off to spend upgrading their home labs. This VMware update arrives just in time for the holidays, and this article gets us ready to start 2018 off right, featuring an easy upgrade method that works even for the free hypervisor that has no connection to a VCSA. Of course, it's a lot more fun to have VCSA in your home lab, and doing so beyond the 60 day trial has gotten a whole lot more affordable.

VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 6.0.0U3-5050593 ISO (2017) download pc

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Below, you'll find both the detailed Step-By-Step Instructions and the walk-thru Video, but you should really read the whole article first, including a way to backup your ESXi media before you begin described in the Prerequisites section, and a way to roll-back easily if things don't go right, see Reverting to a previous version of ESXi (1033604).

If you'd like to see how to use VMware Update Manager (VUM) instead, it's all detailed here, requiring an active my.vmware.com account and a some more download/upload steps, a better way to go once you've already made it to a 6.5.x release.

All the background story on how this easy ESXCLI upgrade method came about was covered in my earlier articles about updating 6.0 U2 and 6.5.
If you're in production, beware, this code just came out just 3 days ago. This article is for the lab, where you may want to give this critical patch a try.

The esxcli software profile update command brings the entire contents of the ESXi host image to the same level as the corresponding upgrade method using an ISO installer. However, the ISO installer performs a pre-upgrade check for potential problems, and the esxcli upgrade method does not. The ISO installer checks the host to make sure that it has sufficient memory for the upgrade, and does not have unsupported devices connected. For more about the ISO installer and other ESXi upgrade methods, see Upgrade Options for ESXi 6.0.

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Possible upgrade issues
UEFI secure boot requires that the original VIB signatures are persisted. Older versions of ESXi do not persist the signatures, but the upgrade process updates the VIB signatures.

You should wind up with the same results after this upgrade as folks who upgrade by downloading the full ESXi 6.5 U1 ISO / creating bootable media from that ISO / booting from that media (or mounting the ISO over IPMI/iLO/iDRAC/IMM/iKMV) and booting from it:

The entire process including reboot is usually well under 10 minutes, and many of the steps below are optional, making it appear more difficult than it is. Triple-clicking on a line of code below highlights the whole thing with a carriage return, so you can then right-click and copy it into your clipboard, which gets executed immediately upon pasting into your SSH session. If you want to edit the line before it's executed, manually swipe your mouse across the code rather than triple-clicking the lines of code.

It MAY just do it's thing after a several minute pause, or it may immediately fail and warn you what VIBs will be removed if you proceed. Note that next command is the same as the one above, but with
--ok-to-remove
added at the end. This allows the upgrade to proceed, now that you've been properly warned. Be sure to make note of what VIBs it says will be removed, just in case the inbox (included) drivers it installs don't work for your system.

Be sure all your devices still work afterward, and if not, you'll need to locate the original VIB download site and install it, using the detailed install instructions usually found at the vendor's VIB download site. Now that the included AHCI/SATA driver has been fixed, home lab enthusiasts are likely to find such issues much less common.
If these esxcli software profile install commands fails, you may want to try changing update to install, details below, see also Douglas' comment. Wait time for the successful install depending mostly on the the speed of the ESXi's connection to the internet, and somewhat on the write speed of the storage media that ESXi is installed on.

before proceeding. This method is here as a reference only, you should use your own internal web host to make pulling/installing this VIB easy, or just download it to a local directory on the ESXi and install it from there.

Special thanks to VMware ESXi Patch Tracker by Andreas Peetz at the VMware Front Experience Blog. This upgrade test was performed on a TinkerTry'd VMware HCL system. Yes, on both the very popular 8 core and the rather special 12 core version of the beloved Supermicro SuperServer SYS-5028D-TN4T system.

After 6 successful years testing then shipping well over 1,000 Xeon D Bundles, Wiredzone had to stop selling them in mid-2021 due to cost, supply, and logistics challenges. So far, Xeon D-1700/2700 (Ice Lake D) was a minor refresh for 2023, with Xeon D-1800/2800 (Granite Rapids D) refresh looking a little better for 2024. More cores, but still just PCIe Gen4 and DDR4. Looking ahead, I'm glad it's Pat Gelsinger at Intel's helm. I'm also grateful to have had the honor of working at VMware when Pat was the CIO there. I'll leave it at that, given the whole Broadcom thing. Easily update VMware ESXi at TinkerTry.com/easy-update-to-latest-esxi

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