ESXi 8.0 Upgrade in three ways - ISO, command line, and vSphere Lifecycle Manager

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ESXi 8.0 Upgrade in three ways - ISO, command line, and vSphere Lifecycle Manager

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Күн бұрын

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
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@DudeinJA Жыл бұрын

You convinced me that a HERO really don't need a cape..... You are my Hero 😃

@oasismike2905 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for demystifying this...been scared of my old 6.5 host, and thought I'd have to lose or convert my VM's. I'm not scared now, as much. hehe

@VirtualizationHowto Жыл бұрын

OasisMike2, no worries! Glad to help!

@mmmubeen3878 Ай бұрын

Thanks for different methods of upgrades

@CanelaAZN Жыл бұрын

BROOO thankyou so much, this really helped and the tutorial was really easy to use as well :)

@VirtualizationHowto Жыл бұрын

Wilssy, glad this helped!

@g.s.3389 Жыл бұрын

Let me add that if your hw is not brand new you get an Hardware error, you can override it if you use the command line upgrade and add the flag "--no-hardware-warning" as it comes suggested duriing the upgrade :)

@VirtualizationHowto Жыл бұрын

G.S, great tip! This will no doubt help many in the community

@srinivasansp6270 25 күн бұрын

Thanks a ton.. Nice video

@oceaneroux-fougere8018 Жыл бұрын

Works well!! DANKEEE

@Estaarrow 10 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@1szelest Жыл бұрын

Great video. Thanks.

@VirtualizationHowto Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

@martymoreno63 Жыл бұрын

Great video!

@VirtualizationHowto Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks Marty

@Ram-vg5dt Ай бұрын

Excellent Efforts thanks...Do we need to upgrade host firmware upgrade before doing OS ( ESXi) upgrade

@euphoricjunkie190 Жыл бұрын

That was awesome, I've been pondering for some time about possibilities of upgrading and always that fear with so many VM's. Am I correct in saying that the bootable ISO method would work with "Custom ISO" I use the Dell one currently (7.0 going to 7.0 3). or future reference will your 2nd method using CLI work using the Dell custom. Thanks for any response(s).

@chimmajhulewala9522 Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@kazman8560 29 күн бұрын

Thank you for the video. Broadcom taking over has ruined everything though, not going to be recommending esxi to anyone any longer.

@khurramsiddiqui2086 Жыл бұрын

Management port 5480 page is not working at version 8, after upgrade from version 7. Any recommendations?

@Aaron6065 Жыл бұрын

@virtualizationhowto i have a question what if you have existing servers runnning or have on your host will the upgrade delete those servers? the servers that i have running are critical

@lukesky7934 Жыл бұрын

Perfect

@VirtualizationHowto Жыл бұрын

Thank you Luke!

@OzDeaDMeaT Жыл бұрын

my component isnt in the list, how do i add the component to the list?

@jerryebanks4677 3 ай бұрын

what if I want to do an upgrade from 7 to 8 but the existing host is part of vcenter 7 but I want it to be to an existing vcenter 8?

@joseph_lama 9 ай бұрын

hello guys , can i know if vsphere 8 license work for vsphere 7 , or any suggesstions down the line is much appreciated, thank you 😃

@sadkingbilly3308 Жыл бұрын

I'm getting an error when using the cli method: '')). This is what I get when I use the url provided in the second command entered for the cli process. Any ideas?

@jasonmorris4eva Жыл бұрын

How can I get a copy of the VMWare ESXI 8. I have been searching but to no avail. When ESXI 7 came out, I got that quite easily on VMware website, but apparently this is not the case with ESXI 8.

@VirtualizationHowto Жыл бұрын

Jason, take a look here: customerconnect.vmware.com/en/evalcenter?p=free-esxi8

@vincentgallo3351 Жыл бұрын

Would love to know if you have an answer to this: How to prevent malware/virus on one vm writing to the storage/hdd/partition of another vm or the hypervisor itself ? I.e/ how to segregate disk write access from vm to vm & from vm to hypervisor ?

@VirtualizationHowto Жыл бұрын

Vincent, this is all about security best practices, layers of the security onion. No one solution will protect you fully. Follow the best practices of network segmentation, applying the latest security patches, CPU microcode updates for spectre meltdown, and others, patched operating systems, etc

@vincentgallo3351 Жыл бұрын

@@VirtualizationHowto Thanks for replying and yes I aagree that all of those steps need to be taken. However, I was only asking about one part: if it is possible to segregate Storage vm to vm and vm to host. Any idea if that is possible?

@g.s.3389 Жыл бұрын

I have just finished to upgrade my esxi server and vcenter to version 8.... a bit worried but I did it....

@VirtualizationHowto Жыл бұрын

Awesome, I suspect most will find it trouble free, hopefully :)

@LeoVillacorte Жыл бұрын

You did mention anything about licensing. can an esxi 7 free license be used? Or do you have to get a new one? Currently ESXi 8 free license generation is broken as per the VMWare site

@VirtualizationHowto Жыл бұрын

Leo, typically you need a new license between major release versions. I suspect they will get the free license form operational soon. There is a hack to reset the evaluation license back to 60 days as well.

@LeoVillacorte Жыл бұрын

@@VirtualizationHowto Yeah I understand that. it is something you should mention before doing an upgrade because it could break someone's setup

@onuroskay8613 Жыл бұрын

@@LeoVillacorte U are right!

@carlosnachos Жыл бұрын

does anyone knows if my licences from V7 hosts will work on V8 ? Also for VCenter7 to V8?

@makefile9974 Жыл бұрын

It will not

@makefile9974 Жыл бұрын

It will not

@kenleysalomon4822 3 ай бұрын

@virtuallizationHowto I want to edit my block size 1MB to 4 or 8MB. could you tell me how 🙏 🙏?

@69UHF 9 ай бұрын

How about paste here the commands u used ?

@keithharrisharris8266 2 ай бұрын

I the only thing I don’t like is if you use Image to upgrade your cluster you CANT go back to using the baseline method that usually more flexible. With image it’s a ALL or NOTHING process.

@jimberry7865 Жыл бұрын

At 5:37 of the video, how did you get an image to populate? Mine is blank and i see no add function.

@makefile9974 Жыл бұрын

Left that out didn’t he 😮

@makefile9974 Жыл бұрын

Left that out didn’t he 😮

@makefile9974 Жыл бұрын

Left that out didn’t he 😮

@mrsnicks6105 6 күн бұрын

Click the Pencil Icon to edit and bring up the list.

@petelongrs Жыл бұрын

8.zero, not oh.

@danyboy1477 Жыл бұрын

I've been upgrading my ml350. Last time was a real pain to get it to esxi7. I fear 7.0.3 will be the last esxi my server will have.

@goeksss Жыл бұрын

I got the same server and the same esxi version and same like you I want update to 8.0.. It’s our Company Server and of course our hole data is on this machine.. I really believe I can do it (it seems not so complicated) but there is always a bit feer in me.. what if anything goes wrong😅 but I think i do it next week 😊