VMware-vCenter-Converter-For-Windows.jpg' alt='New Vcenter Converter 5.5 Download - Free Software' title='New Vcenter Converter 5.5 Download - Free Software' />VMware Front Experience How to update your standalone host to ESXi 5. After announcing it at VMworld 2. San Francisco VMware has released v. New Vcenter Converter 5.5 Download - Free Software' title='New Vcenter Converter 5.5 Download - Free Software' />Sphere 5. Sunday, so the news is not yet out on allvirtualization related blogs, but this will surely change during this day. Duncan Epping has posted a list of all download links on his blog. In this post I will provide a quick way to update your standalone ESXi host to ESXi 5. How to update to ESXi 5. If your host is connected to the Internet then you just need to run the following commands in an ESXi shell. Client. Install the ESXi 5. GA Imageprofile from the VMware Online depot. I have 3 host on Vcenter 5. Update 1. The first 2 host installed with ESXi 5. ESXi 5. 5 update 2. The. VSphere 6. 5 Blog posts Whats New with VMware vSphere 6. Sphere 6. 5 Whats New with vCenter 6. Whats New with Virtual SAN 6. New Features Overview. Login to My VMware to download products, manage product license keys, get support and file support request. Download the free trial version below to get started. Doubleclick the downloaded file to install the software. VUMPRODUCTIONmainvmw depot index. ESXi 5. 5. 0 1. It might be very important to use update and not install here More on this later. Reboot the host to complete the update. If your host is not connected to the Internet then you can still update using the ESXi 5. Offline bundle. Unfortunately VMware does not provide this to free license users, so we need some additional steps to create it on our own Find a Windows machine that is connected to the Internet and install Power. CLI on it. Open a Power. CLI session using the installed desktop shortcut and run the following commands Add Esx. Software. Depot https hostupdate. Download Free Products. Save money by virtualizing servers with the industrys best hypervisor. Safely try new software in isolated virtual machines on your PC. VUMPRODUCTIONmainvmw depot index. Export Esx. Image. Profile Image. Profile ESXi 5. Export. To. Bundle File. Path. ESXi 5. 5. These commands will create the ESXi 5. Offline Bundle in the current directory. Upload the file to a datastore of your host using the Datastore browser of the v. Sphere Client. In this example we will use the datastore named ds. Change that to match your own datastores name Open an ESXi shell on the host and run the following command there to update your host. ESXi 5. 5. 0 1. ESXi 5. Watch out Some drivers for unsupported NICs are missing in ESXi 5. If you use install instead of update in the above commands then the following error message will be displayed Exception You attempted to install an image profile which would have resulted in the removal of VIBs VMwarebootbanknet sky. VMwarebootbanknet r. VMwarebootbanknet r. VMwarebootbanknet s. If this is not what you intended, you may use the esxcli software profile update command to preserve the VIBs above. If this is what you intended, please use the ok to remove option to explicitly allow the removal. Please refer to the log file for more details. ESXi 5. 0 and 5. 1 included drivers for network adapters that are not officially supported by VMware, but were very useful for installing ESXi on whitebox hardware, e. Realtek adapters and net sky. Marvell adapters. If you do not use any of the above listed drivers then it is safe to use the install command and add the ok to remove option like stated in the error message. If you do use any of these drivers then you must use the update command to preserve them. Do not upgrade the virtual hardware of your VMs If you try to upgrade the virtual hardware of your VMs to the new revision 1. ESXi 5. 5 then the following warning will be displayed by the v. Sphere Client. Do not do this if you are using the free license with this host or cannot manage it through v. Center for some other reason If you do this you will no longer be able to edit the VMs properties with the legacy v. Sphere Client. Whenever you try this the following message will be displayed. On the one hand this is somewhat disappointing for users of standalone ESXi hosts, on the other hand in most cases you do not really need to upgrade the virtual hardware of your VMs. SATA AHCI controller. But keep in mind that this issue might also affect you if you are managing your hosts with v. Center and your v. Center server is a virtual machine I would not upgrade the hardware version of the v. Center server then, because this might limit your options for troubleshooting when the v. Samsung Galaxy Modem Driver Windows 7 here. Center server should become unavailable. What if it is too late You have ignored the warning in the v. Sphere Client and have upgraded the virtual hardware and can now no longer edit its hardware There is no menu item available to downgrade the virtual hardware of a VM, so we need to use some workaround. Im sure that there are several ways to fix that, but what will definitely work is the following Create a new VM with the same hardware specifications no. CPUs, RAM size, disk and network controller type than the original upgraded one. Then attach the hard disks of the original VM to the new VM. The new VM will have a different MAC address which can be manually set to the original value and BIOS UUID, but this is better than nothing.