How to update your ESXi 6.0 host the easy way

Great news, this article has already been written by Vladan Seget, it's good to go as-is!

How do I know? Because I tested it, updating to ESXi 6.0.0 build 2715440, and recorded each and every step of the process in the short video below.

So if you only have a single ESXi 6.0 host to patch, especially to handle the CBT bug explained here, you'll see this can all be done without installing and configuring VMware Update Manager.

Vladan's excellent article

• How to Install latest ESXi VMware Patch – [Guide]

  by Vladan Seget on May 18 2015

Detailed step-by-step TinkerTry walk through

In this video, you'll see these 4 basic steps:

1) Enter ESXi Maintenance mode
2) Download ESXi600-201505001.zip, upload to ESXi using Datastore Browser
3) use PuTTY to SSH in and type this install command:

esxcli software vib install -d /vmfs/volumes/SSD3-256GB/patch-directory/ESXi60-201505001.zip

4) reboot

See also

• VMware ESXi 6.0, Patch ESXi600-201505401-BG: Updates esx-base (2116126)

  kb.vmware.com/kb/2116126

Summaries and Symptoms

This patch updates the esx-base VIB to resolve an issue where after you upgrade to or install VMware ESXi 6.0.x, the following operations might fail or not work as expected on a Change Block Tracking (CBT) enabled virtual machine due to excessive CBT heap exhaustion:

•Virtual machine backup

•Virtual machine Power on

•Expanding the size of the virtual disk

•Taking virtual machine quiesced snapshots

• VMware Update Manager

  Better suited for automating many ESXi host upgrades.