Remove esx software depot

In addition, i will discuss how to differentiate image profiles within the depot. Updating patches on an esxi host using esxcli software. When you upload the esxi software depot, it creates vmware standard profiles by. Remove the netmlx4en, netmlx4core, nmlx4en, and nmlx4core packages from the depot so that they are not included in the remastered iso. However, if you do not employ vum, hosts can also be upgraded via esxcli commands using an online repository. Removeesxsoftwaredepot vsphere imagebuilder reference. Hp have just released updated vibs to address the bug in the feb20 release of the esxi management bundles download both zip files and import them into your vum repository for deployment. Find the name of the software youre looking to remove. Removeesxsoftwaredepot softwaredepot warningaction warningvariable put the host into a maintenance mode via. Typically, you will start by downloading the vmware software depot. Patches can either be installed or updated on an esxi host using the. Software depot the esxi software depot contains the image.

This proof of concept setup uses a depot and image profile provided by vmware and does not create custom image profiles. If not specified, information from the current esxi image in memory will be returned. How to install vib on vmware esxi esx virtualization. Displays information for the esxi image which becomes active after a reboot, or nothing if the pendingreboot image has not been created yet. A few months back, we discussed how to upgrade esxi hosts using vmware update manager. The esxcli command used to add or remove vibs from esxi host. You can associate an image profile with a new vsphere auto deploy rule to provision esxi hosts. This can be very useful when installations fail since the builtin nic is not recognized during the install or combined with autodeploy to update images. In february ive build myself a new home lab with some shuttle ds81s, as i described in detail. In this tutorial, we will upgrade an esxi host from 6. This video demonstrates how to update patches on an esxi 5.

The custom vibs can then be used in house, or made available to a wider audience. How to customize an esxi image using vmware image builder. Powercli removeesxsoftwarepackage imageprofile customesx6. Download the desired hpe offline software depot depot. The esxi software depot contains the image profiles and software packages vibs that are used to run esxi. The purpose of this wiki is to provide information about the vfront online depot.

A set of image builder cmdlets are included in powercli for vsphere 5. Before you can work with software depots and customize image profiles, you must add one or more software depots to the vsphere esxi image builder inventory. You can specify one or more softwarepackage objects, or strings representing package names. Perform the following steps to add a software depot to your powercli session. Im not aware of any restrictions on upgrading either the cimc or esx with the be6k i have done many deployments previous to this and have upgraded them all to the latest release. But due to the vsphere 6 release date and the upcoming baristaasaservicevmug demo i used vsphere 5. Deploying and updating vmware vsphere on hpe proliant servers. Using the vsphere esxi image builder cli vmware vsphere blog. It is quite deep in the submenus, rightly so as you will seldom need to remove vms without deleting the files delete from disk action. Remove esxsoftwaredepot softwaredepot warningaction warningvariable software packages to remove from the profile. The web client is not a direct replacement for the old vsphere client, expect to take some time to learn new ways to do old.

You can add a software depot by using the vsphere web client. Here you will find software and driver packages for vmware esxi that were created by the vmware user community. Disconnects the current powercli session from the specified software depots. When the custom image profile is present, you can add and remove necessary packages to make a custom iso. Upgrade or update a host with image profiles vmware. Upload your update package to a datastore visible to your esxi host and then execute your update command with an. Uploading an esxi image patch to a custom software depot in. Remove the conflicting vibs or use image builder to create a custom iso providing newer versions of the conflicting vibs. Enable ssh service and connect to the host via ssh. Additionally, if you want to remove a software package use the removeesxsoftwarepackage cmdlets. Software depot a software depot is a collection of vibs and image profiles. See add a host to the vsphere auto deploy inventory. You can associate an image profile with an esxi host.