How to upgrade from ESXi 5.x to ESXi 6.0 via CLI

How to upgrade from ESXi 5.x to ESXi 6.0 via CLI

 

Abstract

The post explains how to upgrade from ESXi5.0/5.5 to ESXi 6.0U2 with new esxcli command “esxcli software update profile”.

 

1. Introduction

 

It’s finally here! VMware ESXi-6.0U2 released on March16th, 2016 and is available for download. With it comes many new features and of course bug fixes(Release Notes). Of all these new features,ESXi Embedded Host Client  is included, this is a big deal, the arrival of HTML5 UI client that is used to connect to and manage single ESXi hosts. It can be used to perform administrative tasks to manage host resources, such as virtual machines, networking, and storage.

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