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Upgrading ESXi with esxcli commands requires an understanding of VIBs, image profiles, and software depots. Understanding Acceptance Levels for VIBS and Hosts Each VIB is released with an acceptance level that cannot be changed. The version “ESXi-6.5.0-4564106-standard” being listed via the “esxcli software sources profile list ” command. The “update” not being listed. Esxcli software profile update -d -p Profile To get the -p which is the image profile (from the offline bundle) you will update the host with you simple run the following command. Palm desktop 4.2.1 for mac.
ESXi, vSphere, vSphere 6.0, vSphere 6.5by magander3Was contacted a few days ago by customer who got the following error when trying to upgrade their ESXi hosts.
![Esxcli Software Sources Profile List Esxcli Software Sources Profile List](https://www.vionblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/vmware-logo-230x170.png)
Esxcli Update
VIB VMware_bootbank_esx-base_6.0.0-2.43.4192238 requires vsan >= 6.0.0-2.43, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile.Esxcli Version
VIB VMware_bootbank_esx-base_6.0.0-2.43.4192238 requires vsan << 6.0.0-2.44, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile.Esxcli Software Sources Profile List Memory Error
Please refer to the log file for more details.From VMware ESXi 6.0 Update 2 and onwards the component Virtual SAN (vSAN) 6.2 is bundled as a VIB in the ESXi ISO and this is clearly stated in the VMware public release notes.
I will not discuss why the customer used esxcli to perform the upgrade, that’s just the way it is for the sake of this blog post.
Anyway, the following command was used when trying to perform the upgrade:
esxcli software vib update -d /vmfs/volumes/ctr01/iso/ESXi-4192238-offline-bundle-A04.zipSamsung ml 2160 printer driver for windows 10. I have seem similar errors before and you need to use the following command syntax to complete the upgrade:
esxcli software profile update -d <full_path_to_offline_bundle> -p <Image Profile>To get the -p which is the image profile (from the offline bundle) you will update the host with you simple run the following command:
esxcli software sources profile list -d /vmfs/volumes/ctr01/iso/ESXi-4192238-offline-bundle-A04.zipIn my case the command come back with the following:
Esxcli Software Sources Profile List –depot
So to complete the ESXi upgrade I told my customer to run the below command:
![Esxcli software sources profile list sort Esxcli software sources profile list sort](https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IPrC7bqHKpQ/UcR6-xPgRNI/AAAAAAAAGiE/uY-EnRa_Ku4/s400/esxcli-list-profile-1.png)
The command come back with: Airtel parallel ringing activation.
Then just stop any running VMs, which is my customers case was the Nutanix Controller Virtual Machines (CVMs), on each ESXi host / Nutanix node and then reboot it.
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