esxi upgrade with putty

[ferexderta]

i have error when i upgrade esxi 5.5 u2 to 6.5 u2 . what is problem ?

login as: root

Using keyboard-interactive authentication.

Password:

The time and date of this login have been sent to the system logs.

VMware offers supported, powerful system administration tools.  Please

see www.vmware.com/go/sysadmintools for details.

The ESXi Shell can be disabled by an administrative user. See the

vSphere Security documentation for more information.

~ # esxcli software vib install -d /vmfs/volumes/LDS152/VMware-ESXi-6.5.0-829425

3-Custom-Cisco-6.5.2.1.zip

[MetadataDownloadError]

Could not download from depot at zip:/vmfs/volumes/LDS152/VMware-ESXi-6.5.0-8294253-Custom-Cisco-6.5.2.1.zip?index.xml, skipping (('zip:/vmfs/volumes/LDS152/VMware-ESXi-6.5.0-8294253-Custom-Cisco-6.5.2.1.zip?index.xml', '', "Error extracting index.xml from /vmfs/volumes/LDS152/VMware-ESXi-6.5.0-8294253-Custom-Cisco-6.5.2.1.zip: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/vmfs/volumes/LDS152/VMware-ESXi-6.5.0-8294253-Custom-Cisco-6.5.2.1.zip'"))

        url = zip:/vmfs/volumes/LDS152/VMware-ESXi-6.5.0-8294253-Custom-Cisco-6.5.2.1.zip?index.xml

Please refer to the log file for more details.

~ #

[GayathriS]

Hi

See below article which provides you exact command along with screen shot :

Upgrading ESXi 6.5 automatically from the command line without vSphere

The command should be used with update not install.

Please consider marking this answer as "correct" or "helpful" if you think your questions have been answered.

regards

Gayathri

[a_p_]

Welcome to the Community,

please take a look at my reply to a similar question at Re: Procedure check for upgrading to ESXi 6.5​.

This should work for you too.

André