recommendations for manually installing esxi patches via cli

[ICPMuenchen]

Hey,

are there any recommendations how to manually install esxi patches manually via CLI on an omnistack host? Or is it just setting host in maintenance mode and use esxcli software vib update for the patch?

While deploying our new cluster, we mistakenly selected image based setting in lifecycle manager, hence we are not able to install updates the old way via baselines anymore and its not able to revert, because vmware deprecated the baseline method .

thx a lot in advance.

Regards

Peter

[support_s]

System recommended content:

1. HPE OmniStack 5.0.0 for vSphere Upgrade Guide

2. SimpliVity OmniStack U1 Release Notes (Release 3.5.1 U1, Rev B1)

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[NeetSat]

Hi Peter,
Good day.
The process of installing the ESXi still remains the same if used via the CLI method where the commands would be esxcli software vib update, however if you are doing a major upgrade from 6,7 to 7, then it would be esxcli software profile update and the same command would hold good, if you are doing the minor update from 7.0 to 7.0U3 or so.

For the ESXi images itself, i would recommend you to look into the Interop Guide of SimpliVity: 
https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=a00117319en_us&docLocale=en_US

On this above link, all the supported versions of ESXi is mentioned that SimpliVity supports according to the OVC version. 

And for the file itself, i would recommend you to contact the SimpliVity support team to help you with the file, since the standard Vmware ESXi or even the customized HPE image of ESXi, would not be a recommended file to use on SimpliVity.

Finally, there is the SimpliVity upgrade manager too that you can use, in order to get the ESXi upgraded:
https://support.hpe.com/hpesc/public/docDisplay?docId=sd00004307en_us&docLocale=en_US

For any further queries, feel free to let us know. 

[NeetSat]

Hello Peter,
Good day.
Let us know if we were able to resolve the issue/query.
If you have no further query, and you are satisfied with the answer then kindly mark the topic as Solved so that it is helpful for all community members.
Thanks again.

[NeetSat]

Hi Peter,
Since we have not heard back from you from a couple of days, so we will be proceeding with closing the query now. 
Thank you again and in case if you have any further queries, feel free to write back to us and we shall be glad to answer it for you.