# ESXi upgrade ansible

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/esxi-upgrade-ansible/28062>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [July 16, 2018, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/esxi-upgrade-ansible/28062 "2018-07-16T21:00:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ramesh\_AR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3e96dc/32.png) [@Ramesh\_AR](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Ramesh_AR)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2018, 9:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/esxi-upgrade-ansible/28062/1 "2018-07-16T21:00:53Z")

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Hi Experts,

I would like to do esxi upgrade through Ansible playbook same ways of VUM.

Can some one help me how to do this .  
I’m very new to ansible

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**Author:** ![Dick\_Visser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@Dick\_Visser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Dick_Visser)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2018, 8:06am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/esxi-upgrade-ansible/28062/2 "2018-07-17T08:06:38Z")

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Hi

You've asked the same question 7 times over the last few weeks,  
without any response.  
This could be an indication that you didn't provide enough context.  
A question that comes to mind is why you'd want to use Ansible for  
doing the same thing as VUM.  
You said you already run VCenter, and VSphere Update Manager has been  
part of that since a few years.  
So you should already be able to use the vendor provided tool  
specifically designed for this job.  
Hence doing everything from scratch using a (for this job) alien tool  
like Ansible sounds like wheel reinvention and a ton of work.  
Plus it'd still be unsupported by VMware.

Can you can shed some light on the rationale of this?

Thanks

Dick