Run the following command to set the acceptance of the host to “community supported” To fix the problem, Andreas Peetz made a procedure to inject the drivers directly into the host. The adapter hasn't been detected during the upgrade because the NIC installed in the host is a Realtek 8168 no longer supported. The ESXi has been upgraded to version 6.0.0-2809209 but in the example the datastores are not connected to the host.Ĭhecking the Network configuration, the iSCSI VMKernel port doesn't have any NIC attached. When the ESXi has rebooted, right click the host and select Exit Maintenance Mode. Pay attention to run the software profile update command because software profile install overwrites drivers that the ESXi host needs. Identified the correct version (in the example ESXi-6.0.0-20150704001-standard), run the command: ~ # esxcli software sources profile list -d | grep ESXi-6 The correct update version is required to execute the command. List the available ESXi 6.0 updates (you need the latest that ends in 'standard') running the command: ~ # esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r httpClient

To perform the upgrade, the software profile update command is used to updates existing VIBs with the corresponding VIBs from the specified profile but does not affect other VIBs installed on the target server.Ĭonnect the ESXi via SSH (SSH must be enabled) and set the firewall rules for httpClient running the command: Right click the host and select Enter Maintenance Mode option.

Shutdown the active virtual machines and put the host in Maintenance Mode. When the upload is complete, close the Datastore Browser. The file is being uploaded to the datastore. Select the Offline Bundle image and click Open. Note the current ESXi version 5.5.0, 2718055.Ĭlick the Upload icon and select Upload File option. Open the vSphere Client and go to the Summary tab, right click the datastore to use and select Browse Datastore option. To allow the upgrade, you need to upload the Offline Bundle file to a datastore reachable by the ESXi. If you work with a single host or VUM is not available to perform the 'easy way' upgrade, esxcli commands allow the administrators to upgrade the hypervisor directly from the command line using the ESXi Offline Bundle image.įrom VMware website download the ESXi 6.0.0b Offline Bundle file. When the vSphere Update Manager is not available, the ESXi 5.5 upgrade to 6.0 can be performed using the CLI commands.

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