https://wiki.1701technology.com/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Updating_esxi 2026-05-06T13:52:08Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.34.1 https://wiki.1701technology.com/index.php?title=Updating_esxi&diff=1322&oldid=prev 2020-01-09T23:34:24Z

<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Error Missing VIBs</span></span></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 23:34, 9 January 2020</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l6" >Line 6:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 6:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;pre&gt;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;pre&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>esxcli software profile update -p DellEMC-ESXi-6.7U3-14320388-A02 -d /vmfs/volumes/3263a783-96e197a0/VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7.0.update03-14320388.x86_64-DellEMC_Customized-A02.zip</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>esxcli software profile update -p DellEMC-ESXi-6.7U3-14320388-A02 -d /vmfs/volumes/3263a783-96e197a0/VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7.0.update03-14320388.x86_64-DellEMC_Customized-A02.zip</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;/pre&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">So in short you need to specify the profile and the update. Some of my hosts worked with this, but others just needed a clean install (After a 3 hour call with a VMware tech)</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;pre&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-6.7.0-20191204001-standard -d /vmfs/volumes/3263a783-96e197a0/ESXi670-201912001.zip</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;/pre&gt;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;/pre&gt;</div></td></tr> </table>

Michael.mast https://wiki.1701technology.com/index.php?title=Updating_esxi&diff=1272&oldid=prev 2019-12-14T20:59:34Z

<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Error Missing VIBs</span></span></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:59, 14 December 2019</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l2" >Line 2:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 2:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When trying to update from 6.0.0 to 6.7.0 I had two hosts that would not upgrade. They would also fail to patch as well. Following these instrauctions&lt;ref&gt;https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2170328-vmware-dependecy-error-10302608?slot=slot_1&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/56145&lt;/ref&gt; I was able to get the upgrade to run. But first I had to obtain the profile name. I am sure this is stored in the XML file in the zip file, but I was able to pull it from the update manager in vcenter.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When trying to update from 6.0.0 to 6.7.0 I had two hosts that would not upgrade. They would also fail to patch as well. Following these instrauctions&lt;ref&gt;https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2170328-vmware-dependecy-error-10302608?slot=slot_1&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/56145&lt;/ref&gt; I was able to get the upgrade to run. But first I had to obtain the profile name. I am sure this is stored in the XML file in the zip file, but I was able to pull it from the update manager in vcenter.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;pre&gt;esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-6.7.0-20191204001-standard -d /vmfs/volumes/3263a783-96e197a0/ESXi670-201912001.zip&lt;/pre&gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">When using the Dell customized image I ran into a bunch of errors that vcenter was unable to overcome. The following is what I used, but I ended up reverting back to the image above.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;pre&gt;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;pre&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>esxcli software profile update -p DellEMC-ESXi-6.7U3-14320388-A02 -d /vmfs/volumes/3263a783-96e197a0/VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7.0.update03-14320388.x86_64-DellEMC_Customized-A02.zip</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>esxcli software profile update -p DellEMC-ESXi-6.7U3-14320388-A02 -d /vmfs/volumes/3263a783-96e197a0/VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7.0.update03-14320388.x86_64-DellEMC_Customized-A02.zip</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;/pre&gt;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;/pre&gt;</div></td></tr> </table>

Michael.mast https://wiki.1701technology.com/index.php?title=Updating_esxi&diff=1271&oldid=prev 2019-12-14T19:34:36Z

<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Error Missing VIBs</span></span></p> <table class="diff diff-contentalign-left" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #222; text-align: center;">Revision as of 19:34, 14 December 2019</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1" >Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Error Missing VIBs==</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>==Error Missing VIBs==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When trying to update from 6.0.0 to 6.7.0 I had two hosts that would not upgrade. They would also fail to patch as well. Following these instrauctions&lt;ref&gt;https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2170328-vmware-dependecy-error-10302608?slot=slot_1&lt;/ref&gt; I was able to get the upgrade to run. But first I had to obtain the profile name. I am sure this is stored in the XML file in the zip file, but I was able to pull it from the update manager in vcenter.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>When trying to update from 6.0.0 to 6.7.0 I had two hosts that would not upgrade. They would also fail to patch as well. Following these instrauctions&lt;ref&gt;https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2170328-vmware-dependecy-error-10302608?slot=slot_1<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/56145</ins>&lt;/ref&gt; I was able to get the upgrade to run. But first I had to obtain the profile name. I am sure this is stored in the XML file in the zip file, but I was able to pull it from the update manager in vcenter.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;pre&gt;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;pre&gt;</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>esxcli software profile update -p DellEMC-ESXi-6.7U3-14320388-A02 -d /vmfs/volumes/3263a783-96e197a0/VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7.0.update03-14320388.x86_64-DellEMC_Customized-A02.zip</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>esxcli software profile update -p DellEMC-ESXi-6.7U3-14320388-A02 -d /vmfs/volumes/3263a783-96e197a0/VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7.0.update03-14320388.x86_64-DellEMC_Customized-A02.zip</div></td></tr> <tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;/pre&gt;</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>&lt;/pre&gt;</div></td></tr> </table>

Michael.mast https://wiki.1701technology.com/index.php?title=Updating_esxi&diff=1270&oldid=prev 2019-12-14T19:30:52Z

<p>Created page with &quot;==Error Missing VIBs== When trying to update from 6.0.0 to 6.7.0 I had two hosts that would not upgrade. They would also fail to patch as well. Following these instrauctions&lt;r...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>==Error Missing VIBs==<br /> When trying to update from 6.0.0 to 6.7.0 I had two hosts that would not upgrade. They would also fail to patch as well. Following these instrauctions&lt;ref&gt;https://community.spiceworks.com/topic/2170328-vmware-dependecy-error-10302608?slot=slot_1&lt;/ref&gt; I was able to get the upgrade to run. But first I had to obtain the profile name. I am sure this is stored in the XML file in the zip file, but I was able to pull it from the update manager in vcenter.<br /> <br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> esxcli software profile update -p DellEMC-ESXi-6.7U3-14320388-A02 -d /vmfs/volumes/3263a783-96e197a0/VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7.0.update03-14320388.x86_64-DellEMC_Customized-A02.zip<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;</div>

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