Upgrading ESXi with an offline bundle and CLI is sometimes needed.

1) First of all, we need to find out the bundle profile name:

			
				esxcli software sources profile list -d /vmfs/volumes/STORE/IMAGE.zip			
		

2) This will produce an output as below:

In this example, LVO_8.0.3-LVO.803.12.2 is the profile name.

3) We now need to run the install command:

			
				esxcli software profile update -p PROFILE -d /vmfs/volumes/STORE/IMAGE.zip			
		

4) After you will need to reboot the host.