

Message: The update completed successfully, but the system needs to be rebooted for the changes to be effective.

You’ll get a warning just click on “ Do you want to open it anyway?“Īfter a couple of try and error, I was able to get the updated VIBs using esxcli software vib update -depot= You can either use a HEX-Editor to decode the file, or open it in Visual Studio Code. Please refer to the log file for more into the logs, I found the following clues vmkernel.log:Ĭpu1:2099635)ALERT: VisorFSTar: 1655: Unauthorized attempt to mount a tardiskĬpu1:2099635)VisorFSTar: 2062: Access denied by vmkernel access control policy prevented creating tardiskĮsxupdate: 2099635: root: ERROR: File "/build/mts/release/bora-10302608/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib64/python3.5/shutil.py", line 544, in moveĮsxupdate: 2099635: root: ERROR: PermissionError: Operation not permitted: '/tmp/esx-update-2123405 /esxupdt-2123405' -> '/tardisks.noauto/esxupdt-2123405 'īy the way, the esxupdate.log is in HEX format for some reason.

įailed to setup upgrade using esx-update VIB: (None, "Failed to mount tardisk /tmp/esx-update-2123405/esxupdt-2123405 in ramdisk esx-update-2123405: Operation not permitted: '/tardisks.noauto/esxupdt-2123405'") (replace the highlighted version with the version you want to upgrade to ) esxcli network firewall ruleset set -e true -r httpClientĮsxcli software profile update -p ESXi-6.7.0-20181104001-standard -d Įsxcli network firewall ruleset set -e false -r httpClient SSH into your ESXi host and execute the following commands. The update process in general is straight forward.
