HOW TO: Update the VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 ARM Edition (ESXi 7.0 ARM edition) from v1.12 to v1.15 on a Raspberry Pi 4

On the 15 December 2023, VMware by Broadcom released 1.15, Build Number: 22949429 of the VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 ARM Edition

see here - ESXi-Arm Fling 1.15 Refresh

I've written previous articles on installing VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 ARM Edition here for your reference

Part 20: HOW TO: Install and Configure VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 (ESXi 7.0 ARM) on a Raspberry Pi 4

Part 23: HOW TO: BOOT VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 (ESXi 7.0 ARM) from an iSCSI LUN for the Raspberry Pi 4

In this video I'm going to show you HOW TO: Update the VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 ARM Edition (ESXi 7.0 ARM edition) from v1.12 Build 7.0.0-1.12.21447677to v1.15 Build 22949429 on a Raspberry Pi 4, the method used is based on this article and video

Part 25: HOW TO: Update VMware ESXi 7.0U2 to ESXi 7.0U2a in 5 easy steps.

Part 17: HOW TO: Update VMware ESXi 7.0U2 to ESXi 7.0U2a in 5 easy steps.

A list of all the articles and videos can be found here on GitHub - CodheadClub/AwesomeResources

The Sychronous Excepetion at 0x0000000037101434 in the UEFI BOOT Firmware v1.34 is still an issue today, which has not been fixed. These are messages received on Twitter from the Engineers which have worked on ESXi ARM. v1.35 is the latest UEFI firmware available from here

Andrei Warkentin (@WhatAintInside)

"yeah this is a long-standing SD card corruption bug 🤦‍♂️... never quite identified, maybe some command needs ti be done on the way out to flush internal card buffers before the loss of power?"

Cyprien Laplace (@cypou)
I think you only need to replace the "RPI_EFI.fd" file from the boot partition. I forgot this bug existed, as all my Pis download the UEFI files using tftp.
(thus no corruption possible, but no change can be saved either)