esx-boot is the VMware ESXi bootloader. The same source tree builds two different bootloader configurations, one for booting in UEFI mode, the other for booting in legacy BIOS mode. •UEFI esx-boot: Runs on its own directly on top of the host UEFI firmwa
Broadcom no longer allows us to even patch our ESXi hypervisor without a download token, which means I'm currently unable to update to ESXi 8.0 Update 3e | 10 APR 2025 | Build 24674464. I've updated the instructions below for folks who do have acc
Learn about how to install and open ESXCLI and the most useful commands, which are part of ESXi shell commands, for different system administration actions.