ESXi Administration

Patching and Updating ESXi

See https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch for updates and patches.

esxcli system maintenanceMode set --enable true
esxcli system version get
esxcli software sources profile list -d /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/ESXi600-201610001.zip
esxcli software profile update --dry-run -d /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/ESXi600-201610001.zip -p ESXi-6.0.0-20161004001-standard
esxcli software profile update -d /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/ESXi600-201610001.zip -p ESXi-6.0.0-20161004001-standard
reboot
esxcli system maintenanceMode set --enable false