Does the server have light-out mgmt? You can upgrade the BIOS via that. That takes care of the host. ESXi updates can be done through a vCenter.

I have been running esxi,vsphere, and vcenter for well over a year now at home. Nothing crazy, just some game servers, file servers, a media server, and just odds and ends services to mess with.

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