{"id":209,"date":"2012-09-11T14:21:26","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T18:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/149.28.118.115\/?p=209"},"modified":"2012-09-11T14:21:26","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T18:21:26","slug":"vsphere-esxi-5-0-to-5-1-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/11\/vsphere-esxi-5-0-to-5-1-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"vSphere ESXI 5.0 to 5.1 Upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I started upgrading my hosts to 5.1 from 5.0. I have yet to find a quick guide on upgrading. First, I can&#8217;t drive out to my datacenter and spend a day there to upgrade the hosts, so I need to do it remotely. Also I don&#8217;t really know the esxi terminal really well, so this solution will use the update manager plugin. \u00a0I have a smaller vmware\u00a0environment, about 15 hosts so this worked for me.<br \/>\nFirst download\u00a0VMware-VIMSetup-all-5.1.0-799735.iso. The 3.4GB iso. Move it to your machine or vm that runs vCenter Server and mount it.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-210\" title=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1-300x257.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-211\" title=\"2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2-300x228.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nRun the simple installer. It will throw a bunch of warnings, it scared me, but I accepted the defaults and clicked through. The installer will prompt for a new password. I&#8217;m not entirely sure what this is used for. \u00a0The installer will take about 20-40 minutes depending on if its installing SQL. Then you want to install the update manager<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-212\" title=\"3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/3-300x248.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNow you are finally ready to import the 5.1 image.<br \/>\nIf you haven&#8217;t downloaded it &#8211;\u00a0VMware-VMvisor-Installer-5.1.0-799733.x86_64.iso.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/4.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-214\" title=\"4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/4-300x196.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYou want to upload the iso to the update manager like this&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/5.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-215\" title=\"5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/5-300x175.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThen you can attach and remediate as normal, your host will be upgraded to 5.1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I started upgrading my hosts to 5.1 from 5.0. I have yet to find a quick guide on upgrading. First, I can&#8217;t drive out to my datacenter and spend a day there to upgrade the hosts, so I need to do it remotely. Also I don&#8217;t really know the esxi terminal really well, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.postinger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}