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I’m extra psyched today, because today’s episode (which is all about updating your VMWare ESXi version via command line) is complemented by video:

Shortly after recording this video, I found this awesome article which walks you through a different way to tackle these updates:

1. List all upgrade profiles:

esxcli software sources profile list --depot=https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml

2. Grep for just the ones you want (in my case ESXi 7.x):

esxcli software sources profile list --depot=https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml | grep -i ESXi-7.0

3. Apply the one you want!

esxcli software profile update -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml -p PROFILE-YOU-WANT-TO-INSTALL