ESXi 8.0 Upgrade in three ways - ISO, command line, and vSphere Lifecycle Manager
Now that vSphere 8 has been released, many are upgrading existing home lab environments to ESXi 8.0. In this video, I describe three ways to upgrade your ESXi host to ESXi 8.0. These include from the ISO media, command line, and using vSphere Lifecycle Manager.
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Introduction to upgrading ESXi 8.0 - 0:00
introduction to booting from the ISO media to perform the ESXi 8.0 upgrade - 0:37
Rebooting to UEFI setup screen - 1:10
Same process as previous versions - 1:22
Finished booting into the installation/upgrade - 1:47
Local storage - 2:03
Existing installation is detected and prompted to upgrade - 2:12
Proceeding with the ugprade of the existing ESXi installation - 2:32
Upgrade of existing installation completes successfully prompt to restart - 2:48
Introduction to upgrading from the command line - 3:06
Pasting in the upgrade commands - 3:21
Describing the esxcli software profile update command to ESXi 8.0 - 3:44
Describing the behavior of the command line upgrade - 4:08
Upgrade completed successfully and reboot is required - 4:20
Using vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade ESXi hosts to ESXi 8.0 - 4:48
Describing the lab environment - 5:00
Creating the cluster-level image - 5:28
Selecting the ESXi 8.0 GA release - 5:40
Describing the add-ons - 5:45
Saving the image and add-ons - 6:05
Image check completed and image compliance detects the out-of-compliance host - 6:13
Selecting the remediate options - 6:48
Review remediation impact and EULA - 7:07
Starting the remediation using the vSphere Lifecycle Manager - 7:23
After the remediation process has completed - 7:47
Checking the ESXi host console and it has successfully upgraded to ESXi 8.0 - 8:00
Wrapping up and reviewing the 3 ways to upgrade to ESXi 8.0 - 8:10
Check out my blog post detailing the steps here:
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