For more information, see vSphere Command-Line Interface Reference section in the vSphere 5 Command-Line Interface Documentation. You can also install patches using esxcli software profile commands. After the host has finished booting, exit maintenance mode and power on the virtual machines: vim-cmd hostsvc/maintenance_mode_exit Related Information: After reboot verify weather the host has been updated sucessfully or not by running below command: esxcli system version getĩ. Connect via SSH and run the following command to enter maintenance mode: vim-cmd /hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enterĥ. One of the methods will use directly the Internet so you’ll need an Internet connection on the host you’ll want to upgrade.
Shut down all VMs running on your ESXi host machine.Ĥ. After yesterday's upgrade ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via ISO, which is the easiest method, today we'll explore two other ones of upgrade ESXi 6.x to 6.7 via CLI. Upload this file to the datastore visible by your ESXi hostģ. Download the file called update-from-esxi6.5-6.5_update02.zip from My VMware portal.Ģ. To upgrade from ESXi 5.5 to 6.0 using esxcli:ġ. First, check the VMware HCL to see if the hardware make and model supports ESXi 6.5 or not.
