[SOLVED] upgrade 7.0.2 to 7.0.3 Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650

[agostani]

hi ,
we have a cluster: 3 nodes running VMware-ESXi-7.0U2d-18538813.
The upgrade procedure via v-sphere fail with a generic error . Further investigation I found out the following error:

[root@ESX-02:/var/log] tail -F /scratch/log/esxupdate.log |grep -i rror
2023-08-03T08:47:15Z esxupdate: 2101109: esxupdate: ERROR: An esxupdate error exception was caught:
2023-08-03T08:47:15Z esxupdate: 2101109: esxupdate: ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
2023-08-03T08:47:15Z esxupdate: 2101109: esxupdate: ERROR: File "/usr/sbin/esxupdate", line 238, in main
2023-08-03T08:47:15Z esxupdate: 2101109: esxupdate: ERROR: cmd.Run()
2023-08-03T08:47:15Z esxupdate: 2101109: esxupdate: ERROR: File "/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/vmware/esx5update/Cmdline.py", line 153, in Run
2023-08-03T08:47:15Z esxupdate: 2101109: esxupdate: ERROR: File "/tmp/esx-update-2101109/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/vmware/esximage/Transaction.py", line 849, in InstallVibsFromSources
2023-08-03T08:47:15Z esxupdate: 2101109: esxupdate: ERROR: File "/tmp/esx-update-2101109/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/vmware/esximage/Transaction.py", line 815, in checkBaseImageUpgrade
2023-08-03T08:47:15Z esxupdate: 2101109: esxupdate: ERROR: esximage.Errors.InstallationError: This upgrade transaction would skip ESXi Base Image VIB(s) VMW_bootbank_i40en_1.11.1.31-1vmw.703.0.20.19193900, which could cause failures post upgrade. Please use an alternative upgrade method that would install the above VIB(s). For example, use an image profile instead of VIBs to perform the upgrade.

This error point me to this : https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/85982
From the above KB , I tryied the first 2 workaround with no success .
The third workaround fail when I'm triyng to upload the latest esxi image to vsphere to create an iso upgrade baseline

I'm stuck . any  help !
thank's

rf

[Sachchidanand Upadhyay]

Please try to upgrade using esxcli command with image profile:

esxcli software profile update -p <image profile> -d <path to zip>

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.esxi.upgrade.doc/GUID-E51C5DB6-F28E-42E8-ACA4-0EBDD11DF55D.html

Regards,

Sachchidanand

[agostani]

thank's for the reply .

I did , and it worked! now I 've :(Updated) ESXi-7.0U3n-21930508-standard (VMware, Inc.)

but I've been disconnected from vcenter (vCenter Server 7.0 Update 1a 7.0.1.00100)  and I'am not able to connect it again : when I try to add host :

• on vsphere I get : License file download from [host] to vCenter Server failed due to exception: Fault cause: vmodl.RuntimeFault
• on  esxi :

 any hints?

thank's

rf

[Sachchidanand Upadhyay]

Have you rebooted the ESXi after update?

Also please confirm if you are using HA in your cluster?

Regards,

Sachchidanand

[agostani]

yes, I ve rebooted .

No , HA is  not active .we don't use it.

thank's

rf

 

[agostani]

solved!

the problem was the vcenter logs partition full . Follow this KB solved my issue .

( i didn't know about the vcenter management consol on port 5480 !)

thank's anyone for support .

rf