VMware: ESXi upgrade 4.0 to 4.1 (USB)

Tuesday, 17 August 2010 19:31

Upgrade a single ESX1i 4.x host to a higher version by executing the following steps:

On your laptop/pc install vSphere CLI
Download an upgrade package like ESXi4.0-to-4.1.0-0.0.260247-release.zip
Put the ESX host in maintenance mode.
Open a MSDOS console on you laptop and goto C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI\bin
vihostupdate.pl --server 192.168.0.1 -i -b F:\upgrade-from-ESXi4.0-to-4.1.0-0.0.260247-release.zip
Enter username: root
Enter password:
Please wait patch installation is in progress ...
The update completed successfully, but the system needs to be rebooted for the changes to be effective.
Update your VI Client and login to the ESX server.

That' s it. I upgraded my free ESX version like this. You can also use vCenters host update utility.

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-1 #2 Rithman 2010-11-29 10:04

apt-get didn't work with proxy for me until i wrote /etc/enviroment the same lines as in /etc/bas.bashrc

0 #1 Casey Ratliff 2010-10-25 15:10

This was very helpful! Thanks!