Some VMware ESXi 7 download filenames and checksums
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/04/15
The free ESXi 7 download page only get these downloads:
VMware vSphere Hypervisor – Binaries
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi ISO) image2020-06-23 | 7.0b | 351.9 MB | iso
Boot your server with this image in order to install or upgrade to ESXi (ESXi requires 64-bit capable servers). This ESXi image includes VMware Tools.
MD5SUM(¹): 6b74910d911cabcd346028071eb83682
SHA1SUM(¹): 9eeff60e4257d763f49d9b39e1dbaee4fe22acbd
SHA256SUM(¹): 7bebfc1bc0794b0964b9ee731860785794fb678d49a1f06d5e62524b805f2b72VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) Offline Bundle2020-06-23 | 7.0b | 346 MB | zip
Contains VIB packages and image profiles for ESXi including VMware Tools. Use the image profiles and the VIB packages with VMware Image Builder and VMware Auto Deploy to create custom image/ISO generation for ESXi deployments.
MD5SUM(¹): d40887d357dd7042d75d1460d70396ca
SHA1SUM(¹): 620bc355af3d23436eedc1ef49a62225a18f862f
SHA256SUM(¹): d26ce8c036cc2a6c1a49a15c2ecfd471f17df80b4b88e9ed4093671be6b0dec5
There have been many more ESXi versions, that some of the time you want for regression, and some of the time because they are better.
Some of the times (like right now) you do also do NOT want a version, like the current ESXi 7.0 update 2 which got retracted on March 13th, but is still available on the free vSphere 7 evaluation.
I started to notice yesterday that a few folks in the community were running into the following error after upgrading their ESXi hosts to latest 7.0 Update 2 release: Failed to load crypto64.efi Fa…
UPDATE (03/13/2021) – It looks like VMware has just pulled the ESXi online/offline depot and has updated KB 83063 to NOT recommend customers upgrade to ESXi 7.0 Update 2. A new patch is actively being developed and customers should hold off upgrading until that is made available.
UPDATE (03/10/2021) – VMware has just published KB 83063 which includes official guidance relating to the issue mentioned in this blog post.
- [Wayback] VMware vSphere 7.0 Update 2 is now GA, here’s how to download it any which way! | TinkerTry IT @ Home
Warning! – Mar 13 2021 Update – Don’t upgrade to 7.0 Update 2 yet.
If you try to upgrade now anyway, you may experience one of these two errors:1) Using vLCM (Lifecycle Manager)
to update your ESXi host, you see this error:
Loading /boot.cfg Failed to load crypto64.efi Fatal error: 15 (Not found)2) Using ESXCLI
to update your ESXi host, you see this error:
[root@xd-1541-5028d:~] esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-7.0.2-17630552-standard -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml [NoMatchError] No image profile found with name 'ESXi-7.0.2-17630552-standard' id = ESXi-7.0.2-17630552-standard Please refer to the log file for more details. [root@xd-1541-5028d:~]you’ll want to see this excerpt from VMware KB 83063 published on Mar 12 2021
The vSphere 7 evaluation page is always the one where to get the latest version: [Wayback/Archive.is] How do I download the latest ESXi 7.x .iso? VMWare’s site only lists 7.0.0 : vmware.
Do not get ESXi 7.0 update 2 yet [Wayback] my.vmware.com/en/group/vmware/evalcenter?p=vsphere-eval-7:
The hypervisor should be directly installed on any supported physical server targeted for hosting virtual machines.
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi ISO) image2021-03-09 | 7.0U2 | 390.53 MB | iso
Boot your server with this image in order to install or upgrade to ESXi (ESXi requires 64-bit capable servers). This ESXi image includes VMware Tools.
MD5SUM(¹): a085686c3fc8a438a40382118448a846
SHA1SUM(¹): 1ceed7c40b1cd6f97f12eacc027037e202fcb6e9
SHA256SUM(¹): ff20603e4a3e75ab20c7752ca4e3e28d55d28730d6947c849a4cc5beacf9878d
There are many sites outside of VMware where you can get these versions, which you can validate by verifying their checksums.
Luckily, VMware has pages with checksums of the Offline Bundle files, so I have listed them below.
- [Wayback] VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 2 Release Notes
Download Filename: VMware-ESXi-7.0U2-17630552-depot.zip Build: 17630552 Download Size: 390.9 MB md5sum: 4eae7823678cc7c57785e4539fe89d81 sha1checksum: 7c6b70a0190bd78bcf118f856cf9c60b4ad7d4b5 Host Reboot Required: Yes Virtual Machine Migration or Shutdown Required: Yes - [Wayback] VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 1d Release Notes
Download Filename: VMware-ESXi-7.0U1d-17551050-depot.zip Build: 17551050 Download Size: 363.0 MB md5sum: 2ff3ce7fb83ac1659a9142ad4510bdfe sha1checksum: a84b2bcdae56a95609844f3f8dcc46d28e736b39 Host Reboot Required: Yes Virtual Machine Migration or Shutdown Required: Yes - [Wayback] VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 1c Release Notes
Download Filename: VMware-ESXi-7.0U1c-17325551-depot.zip Build: 17325551 Download Size: 523.2 MB md5sum: d1410e6c741ada23c3570e07b94bd8c7 sha1checksum: a70defe8353b39f74339b158697ed1a12df6c55d Host Reboot Required: Yes Virtual Machine Migration or Shutdown Required: Yes - [Wayback] VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 1b Release Notes
Download Filename: VMware-ESXi-7.0U1b-17168206-depot.zip Build: 17168206 Download Size: 360.6 MB md5sum: f6651dba2cf3e28f639b45068760f286 sha1checksum: 1fa79325cefa5730f1fa6f6e8a958b499051d81a Host Reboot Required: Yes Virtual Machine Migration or Shutdown Required: Yes - [Wayback] VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 1a Release Notes
Download Filename: VMware-ESXi-7.0U1a-17119627-depot.zip Build: 17119627 Download Size: 360.6 MB md5sum: 37209643e5d483f70d82c39d3a0e02c8 sha1checksum: 19efc144e0bccef65e3e27f815502bfb73a05782 Host Reboot Required: Yes Virtual Machine Migration or Shutdown Required: Yes - [Wayback] VMware ESXi 7.0 Update 1 Release Notes
Download Filename: VMware-ESXi-7.0U1-16850804-depot.zip Build: 16850804 Download Size: 360.6 MB md5sum: 3c12872658250d3bd12ed91de0d83109 sha1checksum: 7cc4e669e3dddd0834487ebc7f90031ae265746c Host Reboot Required: Yes Virtual Machine Migration or Shutdown Required: Yes - [Wayback] VMware ESXi 7.0, Patch Release ESXi 7.0b
Download Filename: VMware-ESXi-7.0b-16324942-depot.zip Build: 16324942 Download Size: 508.5 MB md5sum: 18a8c2243a0bd15286c331092ab028fc sha1checksum: d0a02bbf0716364fb3e799501357944c88e17401 Host Reboot Required: Yes Virtual Machine Migration or Shutdown Required: Yes
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