Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Installing offline bundles onto an ESXi server remotely.

Installing offline bundles onto an ESXi server may sound difficult at first, but it is actually very easy. 

1. First aquire your 'offline-bundle.zip' file and store it in the same directory you installed the RemoteCLI to.
2. Open a RemoteCLI window
3. Run the vihostupdate.pl command using the following parameters:
              --server 'servername'
              --username
              --password
              --install
              --bundle 'bundle file from step 1'
              --nosigcheck

An example of a complete command string:
         vihostupdate.pl --server ABCD.your.domain --username joe --password abcd1234 --install --bundle offline-bundle.zip --nosigcheck

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