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BrianPitt
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Upgrade ESXI to newer version (6.5 / 6.7) if booting from USB

I have an older ESXI 6.0 that boots from a USB Stick to load the system / Hypervisor.  What would the process to upgrade this to 6.5 and then 6.7?  If I had the system installed on drivers in the server, I could boot the newer version from a USB and upgrade it, but not sure how to approach this with my boot system also loading from USB....

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berndweyand
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you can boot the newer version from cd/dvd or a second usb ,then upgrade the installed version on usb. the installer runs from memory.

be care to choose "preserve vmfs" when upgrading

you can directly upgrade from 6.0 to 6.7 : VMware Product Interoperability Matrices

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