![]() Starting the SSH service via the vSphere/ESXi web management interface. This can be done from the “Services” menu in the vSphere client, or from the “Security Profile” section of the “Configuration” tab in vSphere Client: The first step is to make sure that the VMware ESXi SSH service is up and running, so that you can log in remotely to run the esxcli update/upgrade commands. VMware ESXi and vSphere use this XML file to provide an index of the latest available packages and their version numbers, and can compare the contents against what’s installed locally to upgrade packages as needed. Using esxcli in this fashion is actually surprisingly easy, but it does entail typing out the “depot” URL and providing it to esxcli as a command line argument each time. However, not many realize that esxcli is actually a full-fledged package manager, and can be used to automatically check for updated packages and install them accordingly, in a similar vein to apt or yum. The traditional approach to upgrading vSphere and VMware ESXi involves manually downloading the VIB (short for “vSphere Installation Bundle”) and executing the ESXi esxcli command line VIB installer from an ESXi console or SSH session.
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