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Figure 10 : Prepare for Quick Boot

4. Reboot the system by initiating a graceful reboot either from DCUI or from the ESXi shell.

NOTE: At this step you will see the host is actually performing Quick Boot by skipping the

Hardware reboot

5. Verify loadESX.stats at /scratch/vmware/loadESX/ to see if the system has successfully gone for a

Quick Boot.

Figure 11 : Quick Boot Stats

5.4 VUM Upgrade scenario involving Quick Boot

In this section we demonstrate a VUM upgrade scenario which involve Quick Boot. As an example

we show case an upgrade scenario from previous version of ESXi to Dell EMC customized VMware

ESXi 6.7 A00 image. Detailed steps are as follows:-

1. Launch Update manager in your vSphere Web client (HTML5)

2. Navigate to ESXi image section and import the ESXi Image to the Update manager as shown in

Figure 12.

Figure 12 : Import ESXi Image in VUM

3. Create a custom Baseline for the Imported Image by selecting the New Baseline

4. Verify the Baseline created in previous step is listed under the Baseline section as shown in

Figure 13.