![]() Hi I am looking at upgrading some ESXi 5.5 to the latest update in our datacentre in the US. They are having a few issues with Server 2012r2 VM's getting stuck on the startup screen. Attention, Internet Explorer User Announcement: VMware Communities has discontinued support for Internet Explorer 7 and below. In order to provide the best platform for continued innovation, VMware Communities no longer supports Internet Explorer 7. VMware Communities will not function with this version of Internet Explorer. Please consider upgrading to Internet Explorer 8, 9, or 10, or trying another browser such as Firefox, Safari, or Google Chrome. (Please remember to honor your company's IT policies before installing new software!) • • • •. Subscribe: Help 1. What is this site about? On this site you can find extensive information about VMware ESXi (version 5.0 and later) patches as soon as they are released. All the information that is available here is created in a fully automated way and updated regularly (currently every hour), so that it is always up to date without requiring any manual intervention by me or anyone else! But that does not mean that you need to check this web site for updates every hour. You can easily subscribe to it through RSS/Atom feeds (one for each ESXi version and one combining all versions) or E-Mail. You can also follow the bot @ESXiPatches on Twitter that will automatically send out a tweet whenever an ESXi patch is released. All these subscription services are currently delivered through. Use the links in the top right corner to access them! What information is available here? For each ESXi version (5.0, 5.1, 5.5, 6.0 and 6.5) the patch releases are listed sorted by date (latest first) with the names of the included Imageprofiles (standard- and security-only if available), their build numbers and all the VIB packages that are updated in each of the Imageprofiles. For each VIB package the new version number, a direct download link, and a link to the VMware Knowledge Base (KB) article that lists the changes in them are provided, along with their high-level category (bugfix, security or enhancement) and severity (general, important, critical or security). How can I update my ESXi hosts using the information that is available here? If you are managing your ESXi hosts with vCenter then you should use the vCenter integrated VMware Update Manager (VUM) to patch your hosts. Once you have VUM properly configured to synchronize with the VMware Online Depot then you will find new patches in its repository right when (or shortly after) they have been announced here. If you do not have vCenter and VUM available then you can still patch each individual host using esxcli commands. In this case please note the Imageprofile name of the new patch, then • log in to the host via ssh (follow instructions in if you don't know how to do this) • and run the following commands in the shell esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r httpClient esxcli software profile update -d -p ESXi-5.5.0-1-standard The first command will open the ESXi firewall for outgoing http(s) requests, so that esxcli can pull the updates directly from the VMware Online Depot using the second command. In this example we update an ESXi host using the Imageprofile ESXi-5.5.0-1-standard (that is the Feb 2015 patch of ESXi 5.5). In most cases a reboot of the host will be required after the update. Please note that this will only work if your ESXi host has a direct outbound Internet connection.
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