My 2TB converted vmdk error for reference:Įrror: File system specific implementation of LookupAndOpen failed. As posted in the previous post covering the new vSphere Update Manager features in vSphere 6. I did get errors when creating a VM though and everything pointed to my converted vhdx to vdmk file so I had to rebuild the server information but the upgrade worked with no errors. Write the ISO image onto a flash drive (I used rufus) then boot and run through the install and when selecting the drive ESXi 6.0 is installed on it said this:īe sure Upgrade ESXi, preserve VMFS datastore is selected and press enter Even though the 610 is not supported the upgrade worked. Environment Contains Stateful ESXi 5.5 and 6.0 Hosts. Use the upgrade workflows to resolve version compliance errors when upgrading vCenter Server with version 6.0 to version 6.7. So I then downloaded ESXi 6.5 for Dell Poweredge 620. vCenter Server Upgrade from 6.0 to 6.7 With Stateful ESXi Hosts Version 6.0 or Earlier. I was attempting to convert my PLEX server from Hyper-V to ESXi however I kept running into errors and come to find out I need version 6.5 to support vmdk files larger than 2TBs The only available download was version 6.0 so I installed that version. Take home message: Check your design and matrices again right before the projects starts.Depending on your hardware you may need to download a prepackaged instance of ESXi from the manufactures website.įor example I did this process on a Dell Poweredge 610. KB 76555 was updated in May 2020 and the issue affects upgrades to versions of ESXi 6.7 beyond April 28th 2020. Unfortunately something has changed in the meantime (the footnote was added). Of course we did check the matrix during the planning phase in early March 2020. After that the upgrade to ESXI 6.7U3 went flawlessly. So we had to install some patches up to July 2018 (ESXi600-201807001). In fact our ESXi host 6.0 had a build level of 7967664 (U3e) which is in the critical range. KB 76555 says there’s an issue with expired VIB certificates on hosts below a specific build numer. A direct host upgrade from ESXi 6.0 to ESXi 6.7U3 is supported but while we re-checked the matrix our attention was drawn to a little footnote. So we had (again) a closer look at the VMware upgrade path matrix. A good startpoint should be a look into vua.log on the affected host.

None of the issues above did fit my observed problem. Custom ISOs with wrong signature for intel i40en driver package.

If you google it you’ll probably find a dozen possible reasons tor the failure.

Right after I triggered remediation with a current ESXi 6.7 iso image, I got an error message: Cannot execute upgrade script on host You need to do this so that esxi 7 can create a 120GB VMFS-L partition on the boot disk.

That might involve reconfiguring core dumps, esxi host swap, and scratch location before you upgrade. Delete any datastore on the boot drive first before upgrading. I recently had the pleasue to time-warp a dinosaur upgrade an old ESXi 6.0 host to ESXi 6.7. Ive upgraded 15 or so hosts from 6.7 to 7.0.3c without issue.

Upgrade esxi 6.0 to 6.7 cli