{"id":69,"date":"2011-02-07T13:09:31","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T19:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guammie.com\/donovan\/2011\/02\/07\/updating-esxi-4-1\/"},"modified":"2011-02-16T08:25:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T14:25:34","slug":"updating-esxi-4-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guammie.com\/donovan\/2011\/02\/07\/updating-esxi-4-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Updating ESXi 4.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently went through the exercise of upgrading my standalone VMware ESXi 4.1 server.&nbsp; The process is pretty easy.<\/p>\n<p>Grab the vSphere CLI from:&nbsp; <a title=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/support\/developer\/vcli\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/support\/developer\/vcli\/\">http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/support\/developer\/vcli\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Grab the relevant patches.&nbsp; Make sure you select the correct version of ESX\/ESXi.&nbsp; I facepalmed when I realized I was trying to update using the ESX (not ESXi) packages and nothing was happening.&nbsp; <a title=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/patch\/download\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/patch\/download\/\">http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/patch\/download\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Move the downloaded zip file to C:\\Program Files (x86)\\VMware\\VMware vSphere CLI\\bin.&nbsp; In a command prompt run:&nbsp; C:\\Program Files (x86)\\VMware\\VMware vSphere CLI\\bin&gt;vihostupdate.pl -server &lt;server ip&gt; -i \u2013b &lt;updatefile&gt;.zip<\/p>\n<p>Reboot and that\u2019s it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently went through the exercise of upgrading my standalone VMware ESXi 4.1 server.&nbsp; The process is pretty easy. Grab the vSphere CLI from:&nbsp; http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/support\/developer\/vcli\/ Grab the relevant patches.&nbsp; Make sure you select the correct version of ESX\/ESXi.&nbsp; I facepalmed when I realized I was trying to update using the ESX (not ESXi) packages and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vmware"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tGEc-17","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guammie.com\/donovan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guammie.com\/donovan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guammie.com\/donovan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guammie.com\/donovan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guammie.com\/donovan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.guammie.com\/donovan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/www.guammie.com\/donovan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guammie.com\/donovan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guammie.com\/donovan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guammie.com\/donovan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}