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  • 1.  Hanged while Patching

    Posted Jan 09, 2014 08:26 PM

    ESXi 5 got hanged while patching. We are patching ESXi host using update manager.

    What are the possible reason ?

    What logs can i check ?

    BIOS version is old.



  • 2.  RE: Hanged while Patching

    Posted Jan 10, 2014 09:43 AM

    What is your server specification and BIOS version?

    Also let me know, what is your ESXi build number and you want apply which patch on that?



  • 3.  RE: Hanged while Patching

    Posted Jan 10, 2014 12:18 PM

    Hi,

    you could check the update manager logs and hosd.log  to see what exactly caused to stop responding .

    location of logs   hostd can be found on /var/log/hostd

    VMware KB: Locating logs for VMware vSphere Update Manager 5.0

    Thanks,

    Avinash



  • 4.  RE: Hanged while Patching

    Posted Jan 10, 2014 01:41 PM

    Hi

    Welcome to the communities.

    please check log from below path and upload same.

    /var/log/esxupdate.log:

    Take care!



  • 5.  RE: Hanged while Patching
    Best Answer

    Posted Jan 15, 2014 07:32 PM

    hi Guys,

    Thanks for your help.

    It turned out to be an Hardware Issue. There was known issue of Memory Leak with iDRAC.