Going blind, newer custom ESXi image than u3 from 2019?

[Matthew.B]

Hello everyone,

I am searching but apparently either losing my eye sight in my age, or something else.

All searches I do only bring me to a Cisco Custom ESXi 6.7 U3 GA releases from back in 2019-09-17. There must be a more recent release of the custom Cisco ISO for ESXi no?

6.7 U3
https://my.vmware.com/group/vmware/downloads/details?downloadGroup=OEM-ESXI67U3-CISCO&productId=734

[Steven Tardy · Accepted solution]

Most OEMs don't re-release a custom .iso after GA unless there is a major issue.

Steps to use Cisco custom and get latest ESXi 6.7:

• Install the 6.7GA version Cisco Custom .iso.
• Upgrade using the latest "patch" .zip file (eg: ESXi670-202008001.zip) from vmware.com.
  • ESXi# esxcli software sources profile list -d /vmfs/volumes/Datastore/ESXi*.zip
    • Get Name from first column to use in below command as ESXi-X
  • ESXi# esxcli software profile update -d /vmfs/volumes/Datastore/ESXi*.zip -p ESXi-X

[Matthew.B]

Appreciated, I wasn't sure as Dell with VxRail they do a release every 3-6 months pending on critical releases and ESXi has had one critical level patches since Sep 2019 so thought Cisco may of done a newer release since U3 GA.