I had a problem where the Update Manager was not working on a specific host, VMware support wasn’t really helping so I decided to ask around and found that it can be done in the command line
Steps
- Download the Depot
- Upload the file to a storage that the host can access
- Put the host in Maintenance mode
- SSH to the host
- View the uploaded zip/file
esxcli software sources profile list -d /vmfs/volumes/VMFS-Identifier-here/VMware-ESXi-7.0U3m-21686933-depot.zip
(how to find the “identifier” login to vSphere Client, Click on the storage, Summary Tab, And look for “URL:” /volumes/identifierlisted - This will list all the profiles inside the zip file
- esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-7.0U3m-21686933-standard -d /vmfs/volumes/VMS-Identifier-Here/VMware-ESXi-7.0U3m-21686933-depot.zip
- Reboot