{"id":8828,"date":"2014-04-08T10:01:34","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T09:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/?p=8828"},"modified":"2023-07-16T11:22:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T09:22:22","slug":"upgrade-esxi-55-free-edition-update-1-vma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/upgrade-esxi-55-free-edition-update-1-vma\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade ESXi 5.5 free edition to Update 1 with vMA"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Because vSphere\u00a0Update Manager is available only with licensed version, you can upgrade ESXi 5.5 free edition<\/strong> to Update 1 with vSphere Management Assistant (vMA).<\/p>\n

If no other hypervisors are installed in your network, you can run vMA appliance<\/strong> also from VMware Workstation.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Procedure<\/h2>\n

Access the host to upgrade with vSphere Client and shutdown all running virtual machines. Right click the VM and select Power > Shut Down Guest<\/strong>. Note the current ESXi 5.5 installed release with build number 1331820<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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Once all virtual machines have been shutdown, put the host in maintenance mode right clicking the ESXi and selecting Enter Maintenance Mode<\/strong> option.<\/p>\n

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When the host is in the maintenance mode state, start the vSphere Management Assistant.<\/p>\n

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Login vMA with the credentials set during setup.<\/p>\n

username: \u00a0vi-admin
\npassword: \u00a0 set during setup<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Before proceeding with installation, you need to download\u00a0the Update 1 patch\u00a0<\/span>from <\/span>VMware<\/a> web site then copy it to a folder in the <\/span>host vmfs datastore<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Check the patch content<\/strong> with the command:<\/p>\n

esxcli --server=hostname.domain.local software source vib list --depot=path_to_datastore\/patch_name.zip<\/pre>\n
# esxcli --server=prod-esxi04.nolabnoparty.local software source vib list<\/strong> --depot=\/vmfs\/volumes\/lun01_service\/patches\/update-from-esxi5.5-5.5_update01.zip<\/span><\/p>\n
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To install the patch<\/strong>, type the command:<\/p>\n
esxcli --server=hostname.domain.local software vib update --depot=path_to_datastore\/patch_name.zip<\/pre>\n
# esxcli --server=prod-esxi04.nolabnoparty.local software vib update<\/strong> --depot=\/vmfs\/volumes\/lun01_service\/patches\/update-from-esxi5.5-5.5_update01.zip<\/span><\/p>\n
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Enter the host root and password<\/strong> credentials then press Enter\u00a0<\/strong>to start installation.<\/p>\n
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Reboot the host to complete the installation. Right click the ESXi then select Reboot<\/strong> option.<\/p>\n
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Once rebooted, check the new ESXi release build number changed to 1623387<\/strong>. Right click the host and select Exit Maintenance Mode<\/strong>.<\/p>\n
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Power on<\/strong> the virtual machines.<\/p>\n
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The update process has been completed and host has latest patch<\/strong> installed.<\/p>\n
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Because vSphere\u00a0Update Manager is available only with licensed version, you can upgrade ESXi 5.5 free edition to Update 1 with vSphere Management Assistant (vMA). If no other hypervisors are installed in your network, you can run vMA appliance also from VMware Workstation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"linkedin_93tdZWzMZc_93tdZWzMZc":"","facebook_2879994398731222_17841400390232720":"","twitter_113568041_113568041":"","mastodon_115463926174894442_115463926174894442":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[903,2701],"tags":[879,880,875,876],"class_list":["post-8828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vmware-en","category-vsphere-en","tag-esxi-5-5-en","tag-free-en","tag-update-1-en","tag-upgrade-en","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nolabnoparty.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}