Maxtang’s NX 6412 NUC – update ESXi 8.0a

VMware ESXi 8.0a release was announced:

• VMware ESXi 8.0a Release Notes
• VMware ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion updates address a heap out-of-bounds write vulnerability (CVE-2022-31705)

How to prepare ESXi Custom ISO image 8U0a for NX6412 NUC?

Download these files:

• VMware-ESXi-8.0a-20842819-depot.zip
• ESXi800-VMKUSB-NIC-FLING-61054763-component-20826251.zip

Run those script to prepare Custom ISO image you should use PowerCLI version 13.0. Problem with upgrade to PowerCLI you could fix with blog PowerCLI 13 update and installation hurdles on Windows:

Add-EsxSoftwareDepot .\VMware-ESXi-8.0a-20842819-depot.zip

Add-EsxSoftwareDepot .\ESXi800-VMKUSB-NIC-FLING-61054763-component-20826251.zip

New-EsxImageProfile -CloneProfile "ESXi-8.0a-20842819-standard" -name "ESXi-8.0.0-20842819-USBNIC" -Vendor "vdan.cz"

Add-EsxSoftwarePackage -ImageProfile "ESXi-8.0.0-20842819-USBNIC" -SoftwarePackage "vmkusb-nic-fling"

Export-ESXImageProfile -ImageProfile "ESXi-8.0.0-20842819-USBNIC" -ExportToBundle -filepath ESXi-8.0.0-20842819-USBNIC.zip

Upgrade to ESXi 8.0

TPM_VERSION WARNING: Support for TPM version 1.2 is discontinued. With Apply –no-hardware-warning option to ignore the warnings and proceed with the transaction.

esxcli software profile update -d  /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/_ISO/ESXi-8.0.1-20842819-USBNIC.zip -p ESXi-8.0.1-20842819-USBNIC --no-hardware-warning
Update Result
   Message: The update completed successfully, but the system needs to be rebooted for the changes to be effective.
   Reboot Required: true