recently been busy with the project, for a long time no bo, recently in the deployment of ESXi found some problems, come back early this evening, will it appear, hoping to have the needs of friends. automatically from the ESXI5.5, how many problems, such as SSO problems, Windows Server 2008 blue screen problem, this time the server upgrade, just solve these problems, here to write the upgrade process.
Upgrading from ESXi 5.5 to ESXi 5.5 U1 can be done with ESXCLI, limited to minor versions of the upgrade. If you upgrade across a large version, use update management to upgrade or reinstall ESXi5.5 U1.
The procedure is as follows:
1. Download the corresponding Zip upgrade patch package from VMware website, Patch:
Https://www.vmware.com/patchmgr/findPatch.portal
2. Upload the upgrade patch package to ESXi storage via filezilla or other tools;
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3, the ESXi host into the maintenance mode, it is best to migrate the virtual machine to other host, to avoid the problem of virtual machine;
4. Use command ESXCLI software Vib install-d=/vmfs/volumes/53c3f193-651a14ac-e401-40f2e99d4fb2/update-from-esxi5.5-5.5_ Update01.zip
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5, the prompt as shown, that has been successfully updated, this time need to restart the ESXi server;
6, enter # Reboot, restart the ESXi host;
7, check whether the corresponding version number is updated successfully;
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