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April 3, 2024

ESXi updates

Hi, so taday we will spoke about ESXi.

Yea, pretty cool stuff, but not a lot admins really know how to update it. Let’s take a look.

ESXi is a type-1 hypervisor that allows several operating systems to be virtualized on a single physical host. It is critical to routinely check for and install updates.

This includes VMware Installation Bundles (VIBs), which contain drivers, software packages, and other components necessary for the hypervisor to work properly.

We can use the following procedures to update a VIB on an ESXi host:

  1. Firstly, download the VIB file from the vendor’s or VMware’s websites.
  2. After that, upload the VIB file to a place that the ESXi host can access.
  3. This might be a shared network location or a web server that supports HTTP or HTTPS.
  4. After that, open an SSH session with a client like PuTTY to the ESXi host.
  5. To install the VIB, use the esxcli command in conjunction with the software and vib subcommands.
  6. This command’s syntax is as follows: esxcli software vib update -v VIB_URL
  7. We have to replace the VIB URL with the URL of the VIB file that we submitted in step 2. If the VIB is kept on the local file system, this can be an HTTP or HTTPS URL, or a file URL.
  8. Finally, after completing the VIB installation, restart the ESXi host to ensure that the modifications take effect.

 

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