new draft: upgrading-standalone-vsphere-host-with-esxcli

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title: "Upgrading a Standalone vSphere Host With esxcli" # Title of the blog post.
date: 2022-10-14T07:19:24-05:00 # Date of post creation.
# lastmod: 2022-10-14T07:19:24-05:00 # Date when last modified
description: "Exploring the steps to manually upgrade a standalone host from ESXi 7 to ESXi 8 using the esxcli over an SSH connection." # Description used for search engine.
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series: Tips # Projects, Scripts, vRA8
tags:
- vmware
- homelab
- vsphere
comment: true # Disable comment if false.
---
```shell
; esxcli system maintenanceMode set -e true
; esxcli software sources profile list -d /vmfs/volumes/nuchost-local/_Patches/VMware-ESXi-8.0-20513097-depot.zip
Name Vendor Acceptance Level Creation Time Modification Time
---------------------------- ------------ ---------------- ------------------- -----------------
ESXi-8.0.0-20513097-standard VMware, Inc. PartnerSupported 2022-09-23T18:59:28 2022-09-23T18:59:28
ESXi-8.0.0-20513097-no-tools VMware, Inc. PartnerSupported 2022-09-23T18:59:28 2022-09-23T18:59:28
; esxcli software profile update -d /vmfs/volumes/nuchost-local/_Patches/VMware-ESXi-8.0-2051309
7-depot.zip -p ESXi-8.0.0-20513097-standard
; reboot
```