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Are you a bit behind in your vSphere upgrades or just excited to check out the latest version? No need to to worry! I’m going to walk you through the process of upgrading a vSphere host with VMware Update Manager (VUM). After this you will be ready to preform upgrades on your own.
To preform these activities you will need to already have VUM installed and connected to your vCenter server. You will also want to download the .iso file for the vSphere version to which you are upgrading. Once both of those steps are completed you are ready to proceed.
To get things going, log into the vSphere client (this is the classic fat client from VMware). At some points in this process a few of the steps can be accomplished using the new vSphere web client and I will show those. But VUM is still dependent on the fat client so some of the steps must be done there. Once in the client locate the VUM icon shown below and click.
Now that the Update Manager interface is shown in the vSphere client, we need to upload the ESXi image that we will be using for the upgrades. Earlier I downloaded the image from VMware.com and copied it to the local drive of the computer that I’m using for this post.
Now that the .ISO image has been found and is ready for the upload, Update Manager is showing the details of the ESXi image. From the image below it’s clear the version and build of the upgrade package. Also shown is the date and what vendor created the package. This is good to see as you might download from VMware or from a hardware vendor that rolls their own packages to support their servers, for example.
To be able to assign our upgrade package to host, a baseline must be created. The wizard will prompt you to enter a name for the new baseline, as shown below.
The process will open up a new wizard in a window. The first thing to check is that we want the upgrade choices and make sure that we have selected the baseline that was created earlier.
The upgrade will now and upgrade the test host. Once completed, it will reconnect with vCenter and you will be able to confirm that the new version of vSphere is running on the host.
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