Okay, I'm fairly new to ESXi and would like to patch my single ESXi host (its running 3VM's). I'm running the free ESXi 5.1 (5.1.0 build-799-733 x86_64 GNU/Linux), and would like to patch this to the latest ESXi (I believe this to be build-914609). Again we only have a single ESXi host and want to simplist most straightforward way to patch this.... My guess is that doing this from the command line (I enabled CLI) would be the quickest way? I'm having a hard time finding a quick guide to do this that doesn't reference isntalling/building an UpdateManager. I have downloaded the latest patch from VMware (ESXi510-201212001.zip), and from what I can Google it appears that I can scp this to my ESXi host and run the following command?
esxcli software vib install --depot=/vmfs/volumes/datastore/ESXi510-201212001.zip
Does this sound right?
Should the VM's be shutdown prior to doing this?
Is there anything I need to then do to the VM's after this?
It appears that a reboot would be required afterwards (I would assume so)?