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title: "How to upgrade ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 using Interactive Installer"
date: "2017-05-10T07:00:34Z"
tags: ["ESXi", "Interactive", "Upgrade"]
categories: ["VMware"]
---

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Keeping your ESXi up to date can be done in several ways. Today I will show you how to upgrade ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 using Interactive Installer.
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Without further due let's start to upgrade ESXi using Interactive Installer.

# ESXi 6.0 upgrade  to ESXi 6.5 using Interactive Installer

1. Login to ESXi console and mount ISO.
2. Reboot ESXi and during startup choose to boot from ISO.<br>
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3. Choose from boot menu ESXi and hit Enter.<br>
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4. Wait for ESXi installer to boot and hit Enter to continue.<br>
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5. Accept End User License Agreement and hit F11 to continue.<br>
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6. An installer will scan local disks for existing ESXi installations. Select an appropriate disk and hit Enter to continue.<br>
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7. The installer detected that the previous version of ESXi was installed and we will have a possibility to upgrade it. Choose **Upgrade ESXi, preserve VMFS datastore**.<br>
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8. As you see on the screen, ESXi Interactive Installer informs us that we are ready to upgrade ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5. Hit F11 to continue.<br>
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9. Upgrade process starts.<br>
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10. After few minutes ESXi upgrade is done. What we need to do is to simply reboot the server.<br>
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11. Our ESXi 6.0 was successfully upgraded to version 6.5.<br>
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# Summary

In this article, I showed you how to upgrade ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.5 using Interactive Installer. This is not the only possible way how to upgrade ESXi and definitely, I will show you how to do it differently in following articles.

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