Because of that the Image Profile version was never updated and kept showing the initially installed ESXi version. Before that, I updated my ESXi lab hosts using the zip based depot file together with the vib based install method. This is mentioned in the documentation page: Upgrade or Update a Host with Image Profiles. I don’t know why but it was only in the last couple of years that I got aware that updating ESXi using Image Profiles is the only supported way. Update VMware Tools package on ESXi Updating ESXi When you’re looking for how to update VMware Tools on ESXi, check out this post: This post is not about patching ESXi via vLCM or VUM. The main reason to create this post is that since vSphere 6.5, updating ESXi hosts using the CLI needs to be done via Image Profiles. The update in my case consisted of 2 parts. Since I have a small number of hosts to patch, I often update them manually instead of using vLCM (or VUM previously) as you would do in a production grade environment. This holiday season I had some time to install some much needed ESXi updates in my homelab.
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