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  ESXi Maintenance Mode Via CLI How-to And Some More Commands - ESX Virtualization (vladan.fr)

  ESXi Maintenance Mode Via CLI How-to And Some More Commands - ESX Virtualization (vladan.fr) Second one worked for me.

  Change the file name to the one you downloaded. 1. Download offline bundle from my.vmware.com 2. Upload the bundle to a datastore accessible by the target ESXi host 3. Enable SSH on the ESXi host 4. Check what profiles are available in the offline bundle esxcli software sources profile list -d /vmfs/volumes/Local-Datastore-ESXI-02/VMware-ESXi-7.0.0-15843807-depot.zip 5. Dry-run the upgrade to see which VIBs will be removed and installed esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-7.0.0-15843807-standard -d /vmfs/volumes/Local-Datastore-ESXI-02/VMware-ESXi-7.0.0-15843807-depot.zip --dry-run 6. Place the host into maintenance mode - I would do this in vCenter to make sure the VM's migrate. esxcli system maintenanceMode set –enable true 7. Run the upgrade esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-7.0.0-15843807-standard -d /vmfs/volumes/Local-Datastore-ESXI-02/VMware-ESXi-7.0.0-15843807-depot.zip 8 Reboot the host reboot