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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide
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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide

by Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright, Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Karel Novak, Paolo Valsecchi
November 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
768 pages
32h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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Upgrading hosts with VUM

VUM allows you to upgrade an ESXi host from a previously supported version to the current version.

The first step is the creation of the baseline so that you can attach the hosts to upgrade:

  1. From vSphere Web Client, select Home | Update Manager and select the vCenter Server instance you wish to configure. Select the Manage tab.
  2. Navigate to ESXi Images and click the Import ESXi Image button to import the image file that's used to upgrade the ESXi hosts.
  3. From the wizard, click on the BROWSE button and select the ISO file to use for the upgrade, and then click Next to upload the image into VUM.
  4. When the upload has been completed, a review of the ESXi image information is displayed. Click Close to exit the import wizard. ...
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