Saturday, August 24, 2019

ESXi 6.7u2 update to 6.7u3 failed

Error on my host: Update manager fails to patch the host. When running the manual patch, the host profile update fails.

Error in esxupdate.log:
2019-08-25T00:45:24Z esxupdate: 2099348: root: ERROR: esximage.Errors.InstallationError: ('VMware_locker_tools-light_10.3.10.12406962-14141615', '[Errno 28] No space left on device')

Resolution:
cd /tmp
wget http://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/esx/vmw/vib20/tools-light/VMware_locker_tools-light_6.5.0-0.23.5969300.vib
esxcli software vib install -f -v /tmp/VMware_locker_tools-light_10.3.10.12406962-14141615.vib


Resume manual patching:
esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-6.7.0-20190802001-standard \ -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml 
esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e false -r httpClient
reboot

Done.