Please help me patch ESX 5.0 on my home system!! (Solved)

[Cr0nJ0b]

I'm stuck and frustrated with how difficult VMware makes it to find information on what should be a simple and common task.

I have ESXi 5.0 running and I need to get it patched to the lasted revision.

I DL'd the patch from VMware and placed it on the server. It's a zip file.

I've tried running commands from the host side and I get errors in esxupdate.

There must be an easier way. PS, I don't want to load vCenter just to update a server.

thanks

 

[Lifted]

Is there a reason you need to patch it? You can always wait for a 5.1 ISO and just install that over the existing one, which is basically an in place upgrade/patch. That's the easiest thing to do without vCenter. Unless you need to patch, I wouldn't bother. I still have 3.5.x servers running fine, and will only patch/upgrade them when forced to. I think they'd run forever if required, until a hardware failure, and I've only rebooted them once in the past few years as I required an update.

If it ain't broke...

 

[Cr0nJ0b]

I have to make some hacks to the underlying hypervisor, but those are dependent on patches..so I need to patch to the latest. I know that there is a command out there to patch, but I can't find it for the life of me.

 

[Cr0nJ0b]

esxcli –server=192.168.1.1 software vib update –depot=/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/depotzip_file

or in my case from the console type:

esxcli software vib update –depot=/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/depotzip_file