Patch vmware esxi 5.1

At the console prompt, type vmware -l to confirm the ESXi version. VMware ESXi 5. Ask a related question. Fellow This award is reserved for members who have accomplished extraordinary things, sustained quality tech contributions, and shown great leadership efforts over a long period of time. Expert of the Year This award recognizes experts who help improve Experts Exchange with their contributions to the site, leadership and mentorship efforts, and set an example within the community.

Author Commented: Dan D Systems Administrator. Commented: FYI link to 6. Thanks for your update, Link was correct at time of publishing, links change all the time, when VMware change their website, and this article has been superseded by newer articles. Thanks for the link. I've checked the link, and it still goes to VMware.

You do need to be logged into VMware! Ha, totally missed that, they hid it in the ads. Reboot your ESXi host for the changes to take effect and exit your host from the maintenance mode. I believe this post is informative for you. Be social and share this post in social media if you you feel this is valuable content to share with others.

Menu Skip to content. This post is going to explain you how to manually install the patches on ESXi hosts using command line. After you've done this put your esxi into maintenance mode to prevent automatic restarts of your VM's:.

If the update wen't successful, reboot the machine and recheck it's version which should be this one:. After a reboot you should see the new Image-Profile. If not run the next command to remove all old Image-Profile traces while installing the new one you can safely run the following command multiple times :.

The last thing you need to do is disabling the maintenance mode just by right-clicking the hypervisor in the folder list in the vSphere Client and select "Disable Maintenance mode". Now restart or migrate your virtual machines and you're done until the next update.

Introduction While i continiously have to deal with ESXi hypervisors in my Sysadmin job, i also have to take care of that they're up to date. Start with the prerequisites At first we should get the details about which version of ESXi we have running as well as its Image-Profile version.