ESXi Update VMware

Quick and Easy way to update an ESXi Host

Infos at: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2143832

DONT FORGET TO HAVE YOUR RAID DRIVER AVAILABLE..

1) enable SSH
2) Download from vmware.com/patch/download

3) cd /tmp

4) vim-cmd hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter

5) esxcli software vib update -d /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/...

6) reboot

7) vim-cmd hostsvc/maintenance_mode_exit

or:

esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r httpClient

vim-cmd hostsvc/maintenance_mode_enter 

esxcli software sources profile list --depot=https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml | grep -i ESXi-6.7 | sort

esxcli software profile update -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml -p ESXi-6.7.0-20190802001-standard

esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e false -r httpClnt