Put the host in maintenace mode :
\nvicfg-hostops –server 10.10.10.10 –operation enter<\/p>\n
To verify which VIBs are already installed on the ESXi 5 host, issue the following command:<\/p>\n
esxcli –server=10.10.10.10 –username=root software vib list | more<\/p>\n
To update the ESXi 5 host with the VIBs included in the depot, issue the following command:
\nesxcli –server=10.10.10.10 –username=root software vib update –depot=\/vmfs\/volumes\/datastore1\/ESXi500-201109001.zip
\nvicfg-hostops –server 10.10.10.10 –operation reboot<\/p>\n
Update 5.1 to 5.1U1<\/p>\n
esxcli software vib install -d\u00a0\/vmfs\/volumes\/datastore1\/update-from-esxi5.1-5.1_update01.zip<\/p>\n
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Put the host in maintenace mode : vicfg-hostops –server 10.10.10.10 –operation enter<\/p>\n
To verify which VIBs are already installed on the ESXi 5 host, issue the following command:<\/p>\n
esxcli –server=10.10.10.10 –username=root software vib list | more<\/p>\n
To update the ESXi 5 host with the VIBs included in the depot, issue the following command: esxcli –server=10.10.10.10 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-2680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","tag-vmware","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2680"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2682,"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2680\/revisions\/2682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}