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HOL-1811-03: Updating an ESXi image for Production

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This part of the lab is presented as a Hands-on Labs Interactive Simulation. This will allow you to experience steps which are too time-consuming or resource intensive to do live in the lab environment. In this simulation, you can use the software interface as if you are interacting with a live environment.

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The Updating a Host using Autodeploy process consists of three stages:

  • Stage 1: Create the Software Depot
  • Stage 2: Create a Rule to Deploy ESXi to a Host
  • Stage 3: Activate the Rule

This simulation will go through each stage to update a host which are  too time-consuming or resource intensive to do live in the lab  environment.

Create the Software Depot

 

  1. Click the Auto Deploy icon from the Home screen to open the Auto Deploy GUI.
  2. Click the Software Depots tab
  3. Click the Import Software Depot icon (green arrow) to begin the creation of a software depot. Software depots hold the software  necessary to deploy ESXi to the hosts.
  4. Name the imported software depot "ESXi-6.5". Generally this name should describe the depot. One suggestion is to use the title and version numbers.
  5. Click Browse.
  6. Click the "ESXi650-20174001.zip" file
  7. Click Open to select that file.
  8. Click Upload on the Import Software Depot pop up.
  9. Once the upload has completed click Close

Create a Rule to Deploy ESXi to a Host

  1. Click the Deploy Rules tab
  2. Click the existing rule from the previous simulation.
  3. Click the Delete button to delete this rule. Normally this isn't necessary, but for the sake of simplicity in the simulation we are deleting this rule.
  4. Click New Deploy Rule... button. The deploy rules  associate a host with the an image. Once the rule has been applied the  host will know which image to pull from the Software Depot. When upgrading using Autodeploy you simply apply a new rule with a new software with the updated version of ESXi.
  5. Name the new deploy rule "ESX-02b-6.5"
  6. Under Hosts that match the following pattern: click on <Add pattern> to define which hosts this rule will apply to.
  7. Click IPv4
  8. Enter the IP address "192.168.100.125" to indicate the host that we installed ESXi 6.0 on in the previous simulation.
  9. Click Next
  10. Click the "ESXi-6.5.0-20170404001-standard" image. The standard image includes the VM-Tools for guests.
  11. Click Next
  12. Click the Do not include a host profile checkbox as we are not applying a host profile at this time.
  13. Click Next.
  14. Click the arrow next to "RegionB01" to expand the tree and select  "RegionB01-COMP01". This identifies where the host will exist inside of  vCenter.
  15. Click Next.
  16. Click Finish.
  17. Click Recent Tasks on the right side of the window to watch the rule be created. It would normally take several minutes to build the rule.

Activate the Rule

  1. Click the Refresh icon to make sure you can see the deploy rule you created. Once the rule is created it must be activated.
  2. Click on the rule that you just created.
  3. Click on Activate/Deactivate rules...
  4. Click the rule you created in the lower section.
  5. Click the Activate button to enable the rule.
  6. Click Next.
  7. Click Finish.
  8. Click the Deployed Hosts tab. As this is a new rule that applies to existing hosts, you check compliance against rules in this tab as well.
  9. In this case we are just going to appy the changes as in the simulation we know the host needs to be remediated. To do this, click the Remediate Host Associations button.
  10. At this point, when the host reboots, Autodeploy will apply the new version of ESXi. In order to see this, click on Hosts and Clusters. As soon as you select Hosts and Clusters watch the Hypervisor section of the Summary tab. It will quickly change from 6.0 to 6.5.

in this simulation we have upgraded a host from ESX 6.0 to ESX 6.5. This was done using Auto Deploy, which gives you the ability to quickly deploy ESX based on a rules that can be configure to deploy entire clusters or single machines. Using Auto Deploy we can ensure consistency across hosts.

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