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nitramtech
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Upgrading and Patching single host with 3 VM's and vCenter Appliance

I've been tasked with updating a host server to resolve an issue of a VM dropping off the network constantly.  As the title suggests, this is a single host environment with 3 VM's and the vCenter appliance running on it.

Host: ESXi 6.0

vCenter Applicance: 6.5

I'm not clear on the patching process for the reason that the documentation says to shut down all VM's and appliances, put the host into Maintenance mode, then run the updates.  However, it seems that if the vCenter appliance isn't running I wouldn't be able to run updates from the web client.

Would it, for this reason, make sense to install vCenter server on a different server onsite?

Thanks!

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Jitu211003
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Hi,

If there is a single host then I am not sure, what is the purpose of installing Vcenter server.

Anyway, if you still want to patch this esxi host then follow the below steps.

1. Download the patch from vmware site which would be .zip format.

2. Upload it on the datastore of the ESXi host.

3. Go to putty on ESXi host.

4. run the command below.

esxcli software vib install -d "/vmfs/volumes/Datastore/DirectoryName/PatchName.zip"

It will update the host and then you need to reboot the host manually.

Hope, it will solve your query.

nitramtech
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Yes, I saw this procedure and was going to run it, however - in the end I liked the more automatic nature of the update manager.  In the end my unsureness about which patch to download is what stopped me from this route. 

Thanks for the info!

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Jitu211003
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For ESXi 6.0 download the latest available patch from below link which will ask your vmware user id.

https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/patch#search

For VCSA 6.0

https://vcenter_server:5480

then go to admin tab and click check update from url.

then click update all.