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.

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While nesting a VMware ESXi hypervisor inside another VMware product like Workstation, Fusion, or vSphere may be possible, doing so in a production environment probably isn’t the best solution (that’s ...