Installer will prompted you with 3 different options ,once it detected the existing ESXi installation in the VMFS volume. It will detect the existing VMFS partition which is installed with ESXi 6.0. Click on Enter to continue with the upgrade of ESXi 6.5ħ.Press “F1” to Accept and continue with VMware End user License Agreement (EULA)Ĩ. Once server booted into ISO Image, Select “ESXi-6.5.0 Installer image” and click on EnterĦ. (Modify the boot order in BIOS, if necessary)ĥ. Reboot your Server and Boot your server using ISO image or CD\DVD drive. If you upgrading ESXi using Physical CD\DVD drive, insert the ESXi 6.5 CD\DVD drive into the server or you can attach the ESXi 6.5 ISO image to the ESXi host using virtual CD\DVD drive, if you are using remote management tools such as HP ILO, Dell DRAC or KVM console of Cisco UCS.Ĥ. If you are upgrading your LAB or Nested ESXi, you can download VMware ESXi 6.5 image (vanilla image)ģ. I would prefer to download the hardware vendor (such as HP, DELL or Cisco) customized ESXi image based on your server hardware make which contains the respective drivers for your hardware. You could also upgrade the server hardware with latest firmwares using latest HP SPP (Service Pack for Proliant) incase of HP hardware, same equivalent for other hardware makes prior to upgrade the ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 using ISO image.Ģ. Ensure all your server hardware such as Physical NIC, storage adapter are listed under VMware Hardware Compatibility list (HCL). How to Upgrade ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 using ISO imageġ. You don’t need to worry about remembering any commands to upgrade ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 using ISO image. Take a look at my article to troubleshoot failed ESXi 6.5 upgrade using Update Manager.This article explains the detailed step by step procedure to upgrade ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 using ISO image. Even for larger enterprises, There are some scenario like ESXi upgrade is failing with Update manager due to whatever reason you may need to manually upgrade the ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 using ISO image via some of the remote management tools such as HP ILO, Dell DRAC, etc. They may simply write the ISO in CD/DVD and start the upgrade using the ESXi installer image. Small companies may also don’t have any out of band management like ILO, DRAC,etc to install and upgrade ESXi using remote management tools. Take a look at my article to understand the procedure to upgrade ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 using Update Manager. Small companies with very few ESXi servers may not needed Update Manager to perform the upgrade of ESXi host. One of the easiest way to upgrade ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 is using ISO image.
0 kommentar(er)
