Upgrade ESX 6.0 to 6.7 Custom HP iso

[Tony_Rosas]

We have HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 and they are on the compatibility list. I'm looking to see if anyone has upgraded without losing any settings using the HP custom image and outline what the process looks like.

We have VCSA 6.7.0.43000 Build 15976714 with ESXi 6.0.0, 5224934

We are looking to upgrade to ESXI 6.7 U3 and I see they have an HP image= available to use here:

https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/details?downloadGroup=OEM-ESXI67U3-HPE&productId=742

If I set the image as a baseline in update manager will it perform an upgrade or clean install?

Any process outlines will help.

Thanks in advance

[Nawals]

As long as hardware is compatible with 6.7U3 no issue. You can import the customized vendor image into update manager and create baseline and attached to the hosts and remediate to start upgrade procedure. in other way also do using offline bundle .zip file via esxcli command. Given Below example.

• Download offline bundle from VMware portal
• upload to datastore
• enable SSH
• login to host
• put host MM mode
• run  esxcli software sources profile list -d "/vmfs/volumes/5b48662e-e1e205e8-92b7-0017a477240c/ISO/VMware-ESXi-6.5.0-Update1-6765664-HPE-650.U1.9.6.5.1-Nov2017-depot.zip"
• then you can get the profile name like below

Name                                   Vendor                      Acceptance Level

-------------------------------------  --------------------------  ----------------

HPE-ESXi-6.5.0-Update1-650.U1.9.6.5.1  Hewlett Packard Enterprise  PartnerSupported

• then run command to upgrade the ESXi as show below.

# esxcli software profile update -d /vmfs/volumes/5b48662e-e1e205e8-92b7-0017a477240c/ISO/VMware-ESXi-6.5.0-Update1-6765664-HPE-650.U1.9.6.5.1-Nov2017-depot.zip -p Prfilename as show above in red color

#

Update Result

   Message: The update completed successfully, but the system needs to be rebooted for the changes to be effective.

   Reboot Required: true

# reboot

Note: All above given example. You can change path and profile name according to your environment if you like to use esxcli.

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[Tony_Rosas]

Nawals​ thank you for the info, this is what i expected to do, but just wasn't sure if settings would get overwritten. Can you confirm that?

[Nawals]

No. It will not change any settings on ESXi unless someone change it.

[Tony_Rosas]

Nawals​ Thank you very much for your input. Very much appreciated.

[nettech1]

if you have concerns about loosing the host config, take a backup of your host and save a copy of the config on another system

https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2042141

• ESXi Command Line

To synchronize the configuration changed with persistent storage, run this command:

vim-cmd hostsvc/firmware/sync_config

To backup the configuration data for an ESXi host, run this command:

vim-cmd hostsvc/firmware/backup_config

Note: The command should output a URL in which a web browser may be used to download the file. For example :
Bundle can be downloaded at : http://*/downloads/123456/configBundle-xx.xx.xx.xx.tgz
Where * denotes the host IP/FQDN.
The backup file is also located in the /scratch/downloads directory as configBundle-HostFQDN.tgz

[Tony_Rosas]

nettech1​ I don't know why I didn't think of this option, too many long days. Thanks for the tip, this is a great idea!

[maxime9001]

Hello,

I thinks that to upgrade 6.0 to 6.7 it's possible right now. :smileyhappy:

You can follow this link : https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2019/12/upgrade-vsphere-6-0-to-6-7-vcenter-server-vcsa/

Regards,

[Tony_Rosas]

maxime9001​ Thanks for your input but we are already on VCSA6.7. The question was regarding ESXi.