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Can I go from ESXi 7 to ESXi 8 with
\nesxcli software profile update -d /vmfs/volumes/blahblahblah/Upgrades-20250307/VMware-ESXi-8.0U3e-24674464-depot.zip -p ESXi-8.0U3e-24674464-standard ?<\/p>","upvoteCount":3,"answerCount":16,"datePublished":"2025-04-18T21:13:58.118Z","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"needsmoresalt","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/needsmoresalt"},"suggestedAnswer":[{"@type":"Answer","text":"
Can I go from ESXi 7 to ESXi 8 with
\nesxcli software profile update -d /vmfs/volumes/blahblahblah/Upgrades-20250307/VMware-ESXi-8.0U3e-24674464-depot.zip -p ESXi-8.0U3e-24674464-standard ?<\/p>","upvoteCount":3,"datePublished":"2025-04-18T21:13:58.173Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/how-to-upgrade-from-esxi-7-to-8/1197814/1","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"needsmoresalt","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/needsmoresalt"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"
Yes, is the short answer.<\/p>\n
What you want to check before though is your existing partitions are compatible, your hardware is.<\/p>\n
You can also upgrade using the ISO and booting from it. This is often cleaner and doesn’t bring over junk it doesn’t need. You may also lose some old Linux drivers, so do double-check your hardware will work first.<\/p>\n
You don’t want to upgrade only to find out the network card you have isn’t supported on 8.<\/p>","upvoteCount":6,"datePublished":"2025-04-18T21:46:06.853Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/how-to-upgrade-from-esxi-7-to-8/1197814/2","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Rod-IT","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/Rod-IT"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"
Is there a tool or table to verify hardware will work? I used the comp table to make sure the server type would work with 8.0u3e.<\/p>","upvoteCount":1,"datePublished":"2025-04-18T22:58:47.149Z","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/t/how-to-upgrade-from-esxi-7-to-8/1197814/3","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"needsmoresalt","url":"https://community.spiceworks.com/u/needsmoresalt"}},{"@type":"Answer","text":"
There used to be a VMware compatible matrix…<\/p>\n
But Broadcom made it so complex to use…<\/p>\n