Easy Esxi patching

These are the sites I went to and the commands I ran.

http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2012/09/a-pretty-cool-method-of-upgrading-to.html

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.upgrade.doc_50%2FGUID-1E773360-CB1C-4BC2-B2A4-B73AB5706FAF.html

Heere is a great site to get exsi patches without logging into vmware
https://esxi-patches.v-front.de/

esxi goto configuration page

choose security profile

enable esx shell and ssh

ssh into vmware server

run these commands

esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r httpClient

esxcli software sources profile list -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml

esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r httpClient
esxcli software profile update -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml -p ESXi-6.0.0-2494585-standard

esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r httpClient
esxcli software profile update -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml -p ESXi-6.0.0-20160104001-standard

Reboot

esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r httpClient
esxcli software profile update -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml -p ESXi-6.0.0-20161104001-standard

Reboot

6.0 update 3
 esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r httpClient
esxcli software profile update -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml -p ESXi-6.0.0-20170202001-standard