Does anyone have experience updating esxi5 to esxi5 update 1?

Question

VMware

Interested in pitfalls and problems.

Answer 1

10.09 released 5.1 esxi

Answer 2

I didn't have any problems

Answer 3

VMware ESXi 5 can be updated without VMware Update Manager. For example, this may be needed when creating a new infrastructure when neither VMware vSphere Server nor VMware Update Manager is yet available.
The easiest way is to use the esxcli utility through ssh access to the host. esxcli can install an update from a ZIP archive located on a storage attached to the host. It is really very convenient, since there is almost always at least one NFS ball, for example, to the distribution kits of operating systems. It is enough to put the downloaded ZIP archive with updates there, and execute one command to complete the update.
before that, we extinguish all virtual machines, and transfer the host,
upload updates to the datastore and the following command
esxcli software vib install --depot=/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/*.zip

Answer 4

- rebooting the host,
- even more difficult, rebooting the host where vCenter is (since the update plugin works through it).