Update ESXi 4 standalone server without vCentre
If like me you have the free Vmware ESXi 4 standalone server you’ve probably found that updating it can be a bit tricky without having vCentre handy or a second server to migrate all your VMs to. So here is the process i have just followed to successfully update my 2010 v4.1 server to the latest patch level.
- First of all you need to download the latest update bundle from here.
- Copy the update to the root of one of your datastores.
- Ensure SSH is enabled on your ESXi server.
- shutdown all your VMs.
- Use the client to put ESXi in to maintenance mode.
- use putty to connect to the console on your ESXi server.
- Find the bundle that you downloaded and saved to your datastore:
cd /vmfs/volumes ls cd your-datastore ls
- Now we can verify that the bundle file is okay using this command:
esxupdate check --bundle ./filename_of_bundle.zip
- Now we can install the update:
esxupdate update --bundle ./filename_of_bundle.zip
- followed by a reboot using the vsphere client
- Once the server comes back up you can reconnect with the client, take it out of maintenance mode and start bringing your VMs back up again.
Posted on September 10, 2012 at 23:15 by simon · Permalink
In: Vmware · Tagged with: ESXi, esxupdate, vmware
In: Vmware · Tagged with: ESXi, esxupdate, vmware