If you have to boot through virtual CD/iDRAC you should upgrade iDRAC FW first (no Host reboot needed) before doing the pre-staging of the rest of the FW. You have to select "upgrade" within the installer and pick the existing ESXi installation. So fetch the latest Custom ISO named "VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7.0.update03-15160138.x86_64-DellEMC_Customized-A04.iso" from. you told us that you have only one host which means no vCenter/VUM can be used. The iDRAC have an FW Roleback option if the ESX driver doesnt like the FW. More important when you have a fancy 10/25/40Gb NIC. So within iDRAC you can fetch the FW packages directly from or uploading them manually.īased on many years of experience you should take a look to the HCL for your NIC and HBA. You can pre-stage the Dell FW updates within the iDRAC Enterprise by choosing the "apply on next reboot" option. Please pay attention at the datastore selection step so you don't accidentally delete your VMs. Please play special attention to your host's drivers for vSphere 6.7ĭell EMC Customized Image of VMware ESXi Availability and Download Instructions | Dell Argentina If you are upgrading ESXi unfortunately you can't rollback, you will need to reinstall the ESXi host. You can check that on VMware Product Interoperability Matrices What would be the upgrade procedure, is it standard - shutting down VMs, hosts, booting from the USB, choosing Upgrade and following the steps? Where should I download 6.5 or 6.7 images, is it from the VMware website or I should go with a customized image for PowerEdge R730? I ask because I saw on the Dell site, these are ISO file for different VMware images, 6.7, 6.7 U1, 6.7 U2 and 6.7 U3. Do I need to do it before VMware upgrade? I plan to update iDRAC, RAID, and BIOS firmware on Dell PowerEdge R730.
In case the upgrade fails, would I be able to do rollback and boot from 6.0? I do have a few doubts:Ĭan I easily upgrade from 6.0 to 6.7, or I need to do an incremental upgrade from 6.0 to 6.5, and then to 6.7? I already verified, server and license support both versions. My goal is to upgrade VMware 6.0 to 6.5 or 6.7 (preferred). I have Dell PowerEdge R730 running VMware ESXi 6.0 that is being managed by vSphere client.
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