Once the upgrade is completed, you will be prompted to remove the installation media and then reboot.īefore hitting Enter, select the Virtual Drives menu item and uncheck the Image File. If an installation of ESXi is found, you will be prompted to upgrade or install new. If you are unsure if there is currently an ESXi install on the storage disk, press F1 to view the device details. Select the disk to upgrade and press Enter. Cold Boot- Similar to pulling the power from the server (immediately removes power).Īfter the host boots, Continue with the ESXi installation.Reset-Will force the server to warm-boot.Press and Hold-Similar to holding the physical power button for 5 seconds and then releasing it.Depending on the OS configuration, this can initiate a graceful shutdown. Momentary Press-Similar to pressing the physical power button.If you are unfamiliar with the HP Power Switch options, here is a quick rundown. Select the Power Switch menu item and click Reset. In order to boot from the image, we will reboot the server. Locate the local ESXi ISO and select Open. To do so, click Virtual Drives and select Image File. As this is the case, we will remotely mount the image via iLO to the server. In this instance, the ESXi image resides locally. To begin, launch an iLO Remote Console Session. If you are unfamiliar with iLO, it is HPE’s lights out management flavor to manage servers remotely. Today, we will walk through the ESXi upgrade process from HPE Integrated Lights-Out (iLO).
In the past, we have discussed how to upgrade ESXi via the HP Onboard Administrator, VMware Update Manager, and ESXCLI. There are multiple ways to install or upgrade VMware ESXi.
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