- Vmware esxi 5 to 6 upgrade how to#
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In this example, since this is a Dell host I named the baseline “Dell 5.5 Hosts”. Now select the newly created Baseline you created during the upgrade, then click on “ Attach“.
Vmware esxi 5 to 6 upgrade update#
Go to the Hosts and Clusters view and select the host you want to upgrade first and then select the “ Update Manager” tab, then click on the “ Attach” link so that we can attach our new Baseline to this host. Simply enter a name and description for the Baseline. Go ahead and do so as we’ll need a baseline in order to upgrade the hosts anyways. 
After the ESXi 5.5 ISO image upload is completed you are prompted to create a baseline. This typically just takes a minute or two. The ISO image will then start the process of upload the image. Click on “ Browse” and select the path where the ESXi 5.5 ISO image is located on your machine or network, then click “ Next“. Click on the “ Import ESXi Image” link. Open the vSphere client and click on Update Manager. So lets begin! Upgrade ESXi host to 5.5 using VMware Update Manager (VUM) Vmware esxi 5 to 6 upgrade how to#
This time I’ll show you step by step how to upgrade your ESXi 5.1 host to ESXi 5.5 using VMware Update Manager 5.5 (aka VUM).įor this post I’m going to assume you have already upgraded your vCenter and VUM to versions 5.5 as well as the VUM plugin installed. A while back I wrote about how to upgrade to ESXi 5.5 via command line which works great when you only have a few hosts as each host has to download the ISO from the web each time.
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