Patch ESXi 5

1, download patch from VMware.com, mine is ESXi500-201207001.zip

2, Enable ESXi 5 ssh

3, scp ESXi500-201207001.zip to ESXi

4, make sure file is not broken
This file size is:
~ # ls /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/ -l
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          594036729 Sep 23 01:54 ESXi500-201207001.zip

5, do update
~ # esxcli software vib install -d /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/ESXi500-201207001.zip

If you see the error like:

Could not download from depot at zip:/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/ESXi500-201207001.zip?index.xml, skipping (('zip::/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/ESXi500-201207001.zip?index.xml', '', "Error extracting index.xml from ::/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/ESXi500-201207001.zip: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: :/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/ESXi500-201207001.zip?index.xml'"))
url = zip::/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/ESXi500-201207001.zip?index.xml
Please refer to the log file for more details.

This means this zip file has some issue:
1, not exist
or 2, broken