{"id":913,"date":"2020-05-03T02:22:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-03T09:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casler.org\/wordpress\/?p=913"},"modified":"2020-05-08T11:46:42","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T18:46:42","slug":"upgrade-from-esxi-6-7-to-7-0-via-the-terminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casler.org\/wordpress\/upgrade-from-esxi-6-7-to-7-0-via-the-terminal\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade from ESXi 6.7 to 7.0 via the Terminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESXi 7.0 has been recently released. Here are the instructions to upgrade ESXi 6.7 to 7.0 using the terminal.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Go to vmware.com and download the update package.<\/li>\n<li>Upload the package to a datastore accessible to your ESXi host.<\/li>\n<li>Enable SSH on your ESXi host.<\/li>\n<li>Connect to your ESXi host via SSH.<\/li>\n<li>Run this command with the full path to the package in your datastore (replace the path and the filename with what is appropriate):\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: circle;\">\n<li><code>esxcli software sources profile list -d \/vmfs\/volumes\/datastore1\/Installers\/VMware-ESXi-7.0.0-15843807-depot.zip<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>That command will output a number packages, one with VMware Tools and one without.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-915 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.casler.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ESXi-Packages.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"68\" \/><\/p>\n<ol start=\"7\">\n<li>Perform a dry run installation to ensure that the package checks out:\n<ul>\n<li><code>esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-7.0.0-15843807-standard -d \/vmfs\/volumes\/datastore1\/Installers\/VMware-ESXi-7.0.0-15843807-depot.zip --dry-run<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>If that checks out, run the installation without the <strong>&#8211;dry-run<\/strong> command.\n<ul>\n<li><code>esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-7.0.0-15843807-standard -d \/vmfs\/volumes\/datastore1\/Installers\/VMware-ESXi-7.0.0-15843807-depot.zip<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Shutdown \/ suspend any running Virtual Machines, put the host into maintenance mode and then restart the host.\n<ul>\n<li><code>reboot<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESXi 7.0 has been recently released. Here are the instructions to upgrade ESXi 6.7 to 7.0 using the terminal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[307],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-systemadmin"],"gutentor_comment":0,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.casler.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/esxi-7.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casler.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casler.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casler.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casler.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casler.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.casler.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casler.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.casler.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casler.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.casler.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}