+BudMan MVC Posted February 4, 2017 MVC Share Posted February 4, 2017 So now that first patch for 6.5 has become available.. 6.5 GA is in the depot. So very easy to upgrade your esxi 6 to 6.5 I just did mine.. This does force loss of the fat client for management.. But the the web gui is now very robust esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-6.5.0-4564106-standard -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml Reboot, then took it to the lastest patch. esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-6.5.0-20170104001-standard -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml Reboot and on the latest and greatest.. edit: Seems the old client can still connect.. Have to play with to see if can still use it for actual management. Skiver, +LogicalApex, Mando and 1 other 4 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skiver Veteran Posted February 7, 2017 Veteran Share Posted February 7, 2017 Nice! I'm upgrading out vCenter tomorrow to 6.5 so this will follow soon. I'm going to miss the thick client through all of this though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Co-ords Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 The new HTML5 client is great. I am running the VMware fling & it's performance is outstanding. It's not yet feature complete but it's getting there fast. Check it out here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mando Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 im trying my best to let go of the full fat client on 6 (its hard to let go in something so bombproof), in prep for upgrading at end of month on our estate. our webend of esxi 6.0 went awol this morning, and the only way I could think of resolving was to reboot the VcenterVA via the fat client. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skiver Veteran Posted February 7, 2017 Veteran Share Posted February 7, 2017 Please correct me if I'm wrong, but the bigger problem I have with the new HTML5 client is that it's only supported when running vCenter VA, which in turn is also only supported by running on an ESX host? We run mostly Hyper-V here so it's impractical to fire up an ESX host JUST to run VA. The ESX hosts we do have are all R&D/CS based stuff and not really the most ideal place to stick a production VM so unless they change something I'm stuck running Windows vCenter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted February 7, 2017 Author MVC Share Posted February 7, 2017 No you do not need to run vcenter - I am not.. I have stand alone esxi host. No vcenter VA or other vcenter at all. This allows you to directly admin the host without having to use the fat client. Lets not confuse things here with vcenter. Last I checked vcenter was not free.. I am talking about running free esxi, with just managment of the host via the built in ui, no need for any flings.. The fling co-ords linked to was for the vcenter.. There is another fling for just the host without vcenter. But again you do not need a fling, you do not need vcenter. Just your standalone esxi host. if you are in a production setup then yeah your prob using vcenter.. Then again you shouldn't be taking my advice on how easy it is to upgrade - this is for a home/lab setup. You would need to follow your company policy on updating esxi in a production/work setup. Follow all your change control, do some research on what it might break, etc. etc.. +Thayios and Danielx64 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skiver Veteran Posted February 7, 2017 Veteran Share Posted February 7, 2017 2 hours ago, BudMan said: No you do not need to run vcenter - I am not.. I have stand alone esxi host. No vcenter VA or other vcenter at all. This allows you to directly admin the host without having to use the fat client. Lets not confuse things here with vcenter. Last I checked vcenter was not free.. I am talking about running free esxi, with just managment of the host via the built in ui, no need for any flings.. The fling co-ords linked to was for the vcenter.. There is another fling for just the host without vcenter. But again you do not need a fling, you do not need vcenter. Just your standalone esxi host. if you are in a production setup then yeah your prob using vcenter.. Then again you shouldn't be taking my advice on how easy it is to upgrade - this is for a home/lab setup. You would need to follow your company policy on updating esxi in a production/work setup. Follow all your change control, do some research on what it might break, etc. etc.. Absolutely, this is just an option we can look at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SouthGate Posted February 17, 2017 Share Posted February 17, 2017 VMware Workstation still connects perfectly with ESXi 6.5. You get some basic management options for the server and the ability to still download/upload VM's which is great because I tend to build machines locally for testing, then upload them to production on the remote ESXi server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokkolm Posted June 27, 2017 Share Posted June 27, 2017 On 2/17/2017 at 6:28 PM, Broughton said: VMware Workstation still connects perfectly with ESXi 6.5. You get some basic management options for the server and the ability to still download/upload VM's which is great because I tend to build machines locally for testing, then upload them to production on the remote ESXi server. VMware Workstation is not the vSphere Client, which I believe is what Budman was talking about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted July 1, 2017 Author MVC Share Posted July 1, 2017 No I was not talking about workstation or vcenter.. There is a fat client - that still works.. You can grab the latest 6.0 update3 build 5112508 https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2089791 Looks like this Or the current 6.5 have the ui already built in and you do not need the fling.. just hit your esxi host via its name or IP https://esxi.local.lan/ui/#/login My fqdn is esxi.local.lan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokkolm Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 @BudMan I wanted to ask you a question about the depot. Is there a VMware site that lists the contents of the depot? I've seen a ton of bloggers reference the upgrade process from the depot, but I've never actually found a depot listing anywhere. I've always wondered how I can figure out the command if I wanted to upgrade to a newer version than is listed in an older blog article that I was looking at. Is there a listing of packages somewhere that exist in VMware's online depot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted July 26, 2017 Author MVC Share Posted July 26, 2017 Sure you can.. Just ask for the list vs installing the specific file you want So from the depot I pointed too above I can find all the vibs in that depot.. [root@esxi:~] esxcli software sources vib list --depot=https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml Name Version Vendor Creation Date Acceptance Level Status ----------------------------- ------------------------------------- ------ ------------- ---------------- --------- esx-base 5.0.0-1.18.768111 VMware 2012-06-29 VMwareCertified Downgrade ehci-ehci-hcd 1.0-3vmw.600.1.26.3380124 VMware 2015-12-28 VMwareCertified Downgrade net-bnx2 2.0.15g.v50.11-7vmw.510.1.12.1065491 VMware 2013-03-23 VMwareCertified Downgrade esx-base 5.0.0-1.13.702118 VMware 2012-04-30 VMwareCertified Downgrade esx-base 5.5.0-3.71.3116895 VMware 2015-10-02 VMwareCertified Downgrade scsi-fnic 1.5.0.3-1vmw.510.0.0.799733 VMware 2012-08-02 VMwareCertified Downgrade lsu-lsi-lsi-mr3-plugin 1.0.0-2vmw.600.0.11.2809209 VMware 2015-06-11 VMwareCertified Downgrade scsi-megaraid-sas 5.34-9vmw.550.1.28.1892794 VMware 2014-06-12 VMwareCertified Downgrade ata-pata-serverworks 0.4.3-3vmw.600.0.0.2494585 VMware 2015-02-06 VMwareCertified Downgrade ixgben 1.0.0.0-9vmw.650.0.14.5146846 VMW 2017-03-03 VMwareCertified Installed net-mlx4-en 1.9.7.0-1vmw.600.0.0.2494585 VMware 2015-02-06 VMwareCertified Downgrade ata-pata-sil680 0.4.8-3vmw.550.0.0.1331820 VMware 2013-09-19 VMwareCertified Downgrade <snipped - its quite long!!> scsi-mptspi 4.23.01.00-5vmw.500.3.63.2312428 VMware 2014-11-24 VMwareCertified Downgrade scsi-qla4xxx 5.01.03.2-7vmw.600.0.0.2494585 VMware 2015-02-06 VMwareCertified Downgrade vsanhealth 6.0.0-3000000.3.0.3.66.5277826 VMware 2017-03-31 VMwareCertified Downgrade vsanhealth 6.0.0-3000000.3.0.2.46.4510825 VMware 2016-10-14 VMwareCertified Downgrade [root@esxi:~] But if your looking for all the profiles then you would call that out.. [root@esxi:~] esxcli software sources profile list --depot=https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml Name Vendor Acceptance Level -------------------------------- ------------ ---------------- ESXi-5.5.0-20131204001-standard VMware, Inc. PartnerSupported ESXi-5.0.0-20130804001-no-tools VMware, Inc. PartnerSupported ESXi-5.5.0-20160804001-no-tools VMware, Inc. PartnerSupported ESXi-6.0.0-20150901001s-no-tools VMware, Inc. PartnerSupported ESXi-5.1.0-799733-standard VMware, Inc. PartnerSupported ESXi-6.0.0-20170202001-no-tools VMware, Inc. PartnerSupported <snipped - its quite long!!> ESXi-5.5.0-20160901001s-standard VMware, Inc. PartnerSupported ESXi-6.0.0-20170201001s-no-tools VMware, Inc. PartnerSupported ESXi-6.0.0-20150504001-no-tools VMware, Inc. PartnerSupported [root@esxi:~] Does that help - what exactly are you looking for? esxcli is very powerful Stokkolm 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stokkolm Posted July 26, 2017 Share Posted July 26, 2017 Beautiful, thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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