ESXi 8.0 Upgrade in three ways – ISO, command line, and vSphere Lifecycle Manager

Now that vSphere 8 has been released, many are upgrading existing home lab environments to ESXi 8.0. In this video, I describe three ways to upgrade your ESXi host to ESXi 8.0. These include from the ISO media, command line, and using vSphere Lifecycle Manager.

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Introduction to upgrading ESXi 8.0 – 0:00
introduction to booting from the ISO media to perform the ESXi 8.0 upgrade – 0:37
Rebooting to UEFI setup screen – 1:10
Same process as previous versions – 1:22
Finished booting into the installation/upgrade – 1:47
Local storage – 2:03
Existing installation is detected and prompted to upgrade – 2:12
Proceeding with the ugprade of the existing ESXi installation – 2:32
Upgrade of existing installation completes successfully prompt to restart – 2:48
Introduction to upgrading from the command line – 3:06
Pasting in the upgrade commands – 3:21
Describing the esxcli software profile update command to ESXi 8.0 – 3:44
Describing the behavior of the command line upgrade – 4:08
Upgrade completed successfully and reboot is required – 4:20
Using vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade ESXi hosts to ESXi 8.0 – 4:48
Describing the lab environment – 5:00
Creating the cluster-level image – 5:28
Selecting the ESXi 8.0 GA release – 5:40
Describing the add-ons – 5:45
Saving the image and add-ons – 6:05
Image check completed and image compliance detects the out-of-compliance host – 6:13
Selecting the remediate options – 6:48
Review remediation impact and EULA – 7:07
Starting the remediation using the vSphere Lifecycle Manager – 7:23
After the remediation process has completed – 7:47
Checking the ESXi host console and it has successfully upgraded to ESXi 8.0 – 8:00
Wrapping up and reviewing the 3 ways to upgrade to ESXi 8.0 – 8:10

Check out my blog post detailing the steps here:

https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/10/esxi-8-0-upgrade-in-three-ways/

Want to know the direct download links to vSphere 8?

https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/10/vmware-vsphere-8-download-links-for-esxi-8-and-vcenter-server-8/

New features of vSphere 8 and vSAN 8

https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/08/vmware-vsphere-8-vsan-8-and-vmware-cloud-foundation-released-new-features/