Comments on: Update a remote server to ESXi 5.1 https://www.lucd.info/2012/10/15/update-a-remote-server-to-esxi-5-1/ My PowerShell ramblings Mon, 28 Apr 2014 16:40:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: vmcreator https://www.lucd.info/2012/10/15/update-a-remote-server-to-esxi-5-1/#comment-3075 Mon, 28 Apr 2014 16:40:29 +0000 http://www.lucd.info/?p=4122#comment-3075 Fantastic work Luc 🙂

Can this script be modified to apply the latest two Heartbleed patches for ESXi 5.5 ?
ESXi550-20140404001
ESXi550-201404020

I have tried amending scripts, but it is confused ( or i am confused ) about depot profile names.

Regards

vmcreator

]]> By: LucD https://www.lucd.info/2012/10/15/update-a-remote-server-to-esxi-5-1/#comment-1803 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:48:34 +0000 http://www.lucd.info/?p=4122#comment-1803 Thanks for the clarification William.
With the Get-EsxCli cmdlet it is quite easy to upgrade a large number of ESXi servers this way. You could even add some code to copy the depot file to a local datastore, if needed.

]]> By: William Lam https://www.lucd.info/2012/10/15/update-a-remote-server-to-esxi-5-1/#comment-1802 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:48:54 +0000 http://www.lucd.info/?p=4122#comment-1802 Luc,

Great article, but want to point out that you don’t need to use SSH to use ESXCLI, it’s available both locally on ESXi host as well as remotely. In my article I just wanted to show how you could directly patch from an ESXi host with just connectivity to VMware’s Repo.

I agree for mass deployment, you’ll want to execute remotely connecting to the host and specify either VMware’s online repo, local internal repo or local offline depot.

–William

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