Hi,
Hopefully someone will take pity on a poor stressed administrator, having inherited a ESXi 5.0.0 build 623860 server, and trying to install Windows 2012... I know, I know!
I don't have the Update Manager and am trying to patch to Update 3 via the command shell. I've downloaded update-from-esxi5.0-5.0_update03.zip to... [ISO-Storage]/Updates/update-from-esxi5.0-5.0_update03.zip and have enabled local shell via F2 on the console and SSH.
In both cases, I seem to end up at a basic prompt, with no esxi CLI commands...
~ # esxcli
sh: esxcli: not found
~ # vicfg-cfgbackup --save myserver.tgz
sh: vicfg-cfgbackup: not found
~ # vicfg-hostops --operation info
sh: vicfg-hostops: not found
So I downloaded vCLI for windows with about the same amount of success...
C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware vSphere CLI\bin>esxcli --server kay-9 --use
rname admin software sources preofile list --depot=[ISO-Storage]/Updates/update-
from-esxi5.0-5.0_update03.zip
Enter password:
Error: Unknown namespace software
esxcli can only be used with version 4.0 or newer servers
In short - I cant find any of these problems on google... help!!!!