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See Chapter 6, “Upgrading and Migrating Your Hosts,” on page 73. vSphere 5.0 provides several ways
to upgrade hosts:
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Use vSphere Update Manager to perform an orchestrated upgrade of your ESXi hosts. See “Using
vSphere Update Manager to Perform Orchestrated Host Upgrades,” on page 94.
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Upgrade a single host at a time, interactively, from an ESXi ISO installer image stored on a CD, DVD,
or USB flash drive. See “Upgrade or Migrate Hosts Interactively,” on page 107.
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Use a script to perform an unattended upgrade for multiple hosts. See “Installing, Upgrading, or
Migrating Hosts Using a Script,” on page 109
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If a host was deployed using vSphere Auto Deploy, you can use Auto Deploy to upgrade the host by
reprovisioning it. See “Using vSphere Auto Deploy to Reprovision Hosts,” on page 122.
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Upgrade or patch ESXi 5.0 hosts from the using esxcli commands. See“Upgrading Hosts by Using
esxcli Commands,” on page 126.
7 Reapply your host license.
See “Reapplying Licenses After Upgrading to ESXi 5.0,” on page 139.
8 Upgrade virtual machines and virtual appliances, manually or by using VMware Update Manager to
perform an orchestrated upgrade.
See Chapter 7, “Upgrading Virtual Machines,” on page 141.
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