ESXi 8.0 Upgrade in three ways - ISO, command line, and vSphere Lifecycle Manager

Now that vSphere 8 has been released, many are upgrading existing home lab environments to ESXi 8.0. In this video, I describe three ways to upgrade your ESXi host to ESXi 8.0. These include from the ISO media, command line, and using vSphere Lifecycle Manager. Subscribe to the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrxcWtpd1IGHG9RbD_9380A?sub_confirmation=1 My blog: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com _____________________________________________________ Social Media: https://twitter.com/vspinmaster LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-lee-vht/ Github: https://github.com/brandonleegit Introduction to upgrading ESXi 8.0 - 0:00 introduction to booting from the ISO media to perform the ESXi 8.0 upgrade - 0:37 Rebooting to UEFI setup screen - 1:10 Same process as previous versions - 1:22 Finished booting into the installation/upgrade - 1:47 Local storage - 2:03 Existing installation is detected and prompted to upgrade - 2:12 Proceeding with the ugprade of the existing ESXi installation - 2:32 Upgrade of existing installation completes successfully prompt to restart - 2:48 Introduction to upgrading from the command line - 3:06 Pasting in the upgrade commands - 3:21 Describing the esxcli software profile update command to ESXi 8.0 - 3:44 Describing the behavior of the command line upgrade - 4:08 Upgrade completed successfully and reboot is required - 4:20 Using vSphere Lifecycle Manager to upgrade ESXi hosts to ESXi 8.0 - 4:48 Describing the lab environment - 5:00 Creating the cluster-level image - 5:28 Selecting the ESXi 8.0 GA release - 5:40 Describing the add-ons - 5:45 Saving the image and add-ons - 6:05 Image check completed and image compliance detects the out-of-compliance host - 6:13 Selecting the remediate options - 6:48 Review remediation impact and EULA - 7:07 Starting the remediation using the vSphere Lifecycle Manager - 7:23 After the remediation process has completed - 7:47 Checking the ESXi host console and it has successfully upgraded to ESXi 8.0 - 8:00 Wrapping up and reviewing the 3 ways to upgrade to ESXi 8.0 - 8:10 Check out my blog post detailing the steps here: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/10/esxi-8-0-upgrade-in-three-ways/ Want to know the direct download links to vSphere 8? https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/10/vmware-vsphere-8-download-links-for-esxi-8-and-vcenter-server-8/ New features of vSphere 8 and vSAN 8 https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2022/08/vmware-vsphere-8-vsan-8-and-vmware-cloud-foundation-released-new-features/