I use esxcli
to manually update our ESXi hosts that don’t have access to VUM (e.g. our DMZ hosts). I do so via command-line:
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esxcli software profile update -d /absolute/path/to/zip/file -p name-of-profile |
Usually the VMware page where I download the patch from mentions the profile name, but today I had a patch file and wanted to find the list of profiles it had.
One way is to open the zip file, then the metadata.zip file in that, and that should contain a list of profiles. Another way is to use esxcli
:
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esxcli software sources profile list -d /absolute/path/to/zip/file |
Screenshot example: