PowerEdge: Updating drivers on ESXi hosts

Summary: This article documents the procedure to update drivers for ESXi hosts including prerequisites.

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Instructions

Prerequisites

  1. Putty or other SSH Client.
  2. WinSCP for copying the driver files to tmp directory.
  3. If the ESXi host has the local data store, then copy the driver to the local data store.


Before stating the update, once the driver file is copied to a local data store or /tmp(using WINSCP verify whether the file is visible by going into that directory in putty.

/temp/driver ls 
Extract the driver file and Use the offline_bundle file for updating the driver.
offline_bundle 
Once the driver update is completed, check if a host reboot is required. If a reboot is required, in the output below, the reboot required shows as true.
Otherwise, it shows as false.

vib install -d  
 

Affected Products

PowerEdge R470, PowerEdge R550, PowerEdge R570, PowerEdge R640, PowerEdge R6415, PowerEdge R650, PowerEdge R650xs, PowerEdge R6515, PowerEdge R6525, PowerEdge R660, PowerEdge R660xs, PowerEdge R6615, PowerEdge R6625, PowerEdge R670, PowerEdge R740 , PowerEdge R740XD, PowerEdge R740XD2, PowerEdge R7415, PowerEdge R7425, PowerEdge R750, PowerEdge R750XA, PowerEdge R750xs, PowerEdge R7515, PowerEdge R7525, PowerEdge R760, PowerEdge R760XA, PowerEdge R760xd2, PowerEdge R760xs, PowerEdge R7615, PowerEdge R7625, PowerEdge R770, PowerEdge R7715, PowerEdge R7725, PowerEdge R840, PowerEdge R860, PowerEdge R940, PowerEdge R940xa, PowerEdge R960, VMware ESXi 7.x ...
Article Properties
Article Number: 000192092
Article Type: How To
Last Modified: 25 Sept 2025
Version:  3
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