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#Vmware esxi 6 update update#
On the cluster’s Manage > Update Manager pane, the bottom half shows the statuses after a scan. If not, skip to Step 6.īefore continuing with any “fix” steps below, Enter Maintenance Mode on your host. If you find yourself in the same place, read on. That didn’t bode well at all until I checked the detailed status and found it to be an unused package conflict. In my environment, I had two hosts in one cluster and one host in another cluster that scanned and showed to be “Incompatible” for the host upgrade baseline. Step 5: Fix Hosts with Incompatible Status (may not apply) Scanning can take several minutes, so check back after a while. With the baseline attached and selected under Attached Baselines:, clickĪnd accept the defaults ( Patches and Extensions is optional and irrelevant to the host upgrade). Returning to the home landing page of the vSphere Web Client, navigate here: Navigate from the ESXi Images sub-tab over to Hosts Baselines and click the + to create a new baseline: No more thick client! Now if we can just get rid of Flash…įrom the home landing page of the vSphere Web Client, navigate here: In Update 1, the Web Client now supports Update Manager so that everything can be performed there. What follows below assumes that you have already rebuilt or upgraded to vCenter 6.0 Update 1. You can read more from my notes on session INF5123.
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Why? Because I learned at VMworld 2015 from the authorities (designers) that upgrading is actually VMware’s recommended path. I’m taking a new approach for me, though, as I use Update Manager to perform an upgrade rather than the fresh installs I have always preferred. With the release of ESXi 6.0 Update 1a, which fixed the network connectivity issue that plagued all ESXi 6.0 releases until October 6, I have begun my own journey from 5.5 to 6.0.