Update ESXi from 5.5 to 6.5

[louyo]

I am trying to update ESXi from 5.5 to 6.5, booting from CD. All VM's shutdown.

I am getting an error of conflicting vib error, host versus metadata.

HUAWEI-bootback-hio-200u2  10EM.550.0.0.1331820

It offers to remove it and also advises to create an ISO.

When I SSH into the server and esxcli software vi b list | grep HUAWEI, it  finds it. I am hesitant to allow the installer to remove it, looks like NIC driver?

Could someone point to some documentation on how to procede?

Thank You

Lou

[louyo]

It looks like that is a driver for a Huawei ES3000 V2 PCIe SSD. I have SSD but it is SATA so I THINK it is unnecessary. I did find  a later level, will try to test removing it, doing the update and then installing the later level. If it works on my test system (virtual), I will take a couple of strong belts and try the production systems.

Lou

[IT_pilot · Accepted solution]

I also have the Huawei ES3000 V2 PCIe SSD, and there the driver is the same for all versions 5.5, 6.0, 6.5. Just update to the latest version before installing ESXi.