ESXi
Upgrade ESXi 6.5 Version using the Offline Bundle
There are times when you’ll need to do a manual update on your hosts. Depending on how your environment is setup, you may need to plan out the best steps to do a ESXi version upgrade on your hosts. For me, atm since I don’t have vCenter stood up, I’m not currently running VUM just yet so I’ll have to manually [...]
ESXi 6.5 Home Lab Setup (Part 2of2)
Now that we’ve created our install media in Part 1, we can move on to installing ESXi on the 8GB USB boot drive. Plug In Your Drives Make sure you plug in both drives into your NUC. I’ll plug in the ESXi installer into the front USB port and the static boot drive will remain plugged in on the back. Booting Up The NUC After [...]
ESXi 6.5 Home Lab Setup (Part 1of2)
Ok so first things first! Since I have all the hardware components I can start to put together this lab. I’ve already installed the memory into the NUCs and now I need the installation media to install and configure the ESXi 6.5 boot drive. Things I’ll need I’ll need a few prerequisites before I can create our install [...]
