Erwin Bierens

Knowledge is Power

Update VMWare ESXi from Shell

2018-04-10 1 min read VMWare Erwin Bierens
Do you know the feeling of creating USB drives to update/upgrade your VM hosts? Stop!, You can do this now from the CLI! I will explain you how to do this. / Login and Upgrade First login to your VMWare web interface Stop all running VMs, after all VMs are succesfully stopped Enter Maintenance Mode. Next, we are going to enable Secure Shell access. you can use PuTTy to connect to your VMWare shell. Continue reading