Upgrade ESXi 4.0U1 to 4.1

[virtualhobbit]

Hi,

I have a Dell PowerEdge T710 running ESXi 4 Update 1 embedded. I have the free licence, and no vCenter Servers etc.

How do I upgrade 4.1?

I have run the vSphere Host Update Utility 4 and that tells me there are no new updates available from the VMware patch repository. If I click Upgrade Host and select upgrade-from-ESXi4.0-to-4.1.0-0.0.260247-release.zip, I get the following error:

Failed to read the upgrade package metadata: Could not find file 'C:\Users\mark\AppData\Local\Temp\fdtueuth.alt\metadata.xml'

Even though the zip opens fine.

Any ideas on what I'm missing?

-Mark

[heritagenj]

Thank you!

Regards,

Jeff Speirs, Nick Ongpauco

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Removed personal data.

[PeteLong]

Heres some more information that might be helpfull,  Update ESXi from 4.0 to 4.1 Pete PeteNetLive

[AlbertWT]

thanks for the link man !

[Adel_Sinnkrot]

Dear All,

The easiest way to upgrade ESXI 4.0 to ESXI 4.1 is to use vShpere CLI utility with the following steps:

So in my test lab I have a single ESXi 4.0 U2 server. On my Windows 7 desktop I have downloaded and installed the vSphere CLI. I have the 4.0 U2 version installed, but will update to the 4.1 CLI after upgrading my test server.

1. Visit the http://downloads.vmware.com/d/ and go to the ESXi Installable 4.1 download section and downloading the 4.0 to 4.1 upgrade file (around 200MB).
   
2. Place the ESXi host in Maintenance Mode and either power off or migrate all VMs on the host
   
3. Launch the vSphere CLI by navigating to Start –> All Programs –> VMware –> VMware vSphere CLI –> Command Prompt
   
4. type cd bin
   
5. Enter the following syntax : vihostupdate.pl -url https://ipaddressofesxiserver/sdk/webservice -i –bundle pathtodownloadedzipfile
   
6. Provide the administrative account username and password when prompted
   
7. After the install completes you will be instructed to reboot your ESXi Host.
   
8. After your host comes back up exit maintenance mode
   

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Now that you have now updated your ESXi host from 4.0 to 4.1 you should update your vSphere Client and CLI versions to 4.1 as well. use the same vSphere CLI link used above to get the ESXi 4.1 download page link above to find the vSphere client. If you are in a larger environment the suggested upgrade method is to upgrade your vCenter Server and use the VMware Update Manager to upgrade your hosts

Regards,

Adel M. Sinnkrot

Senior System Engineer

VCP