After upgrading ESXi hosts to ESXi600-201706001 Hardware 3D graphics functioning fails

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Symptoms:

After patching an ESXi 6.0.x host to the patch bulletin ESXi600-201706103-SG from ESXi600-201706001,you may notice following symptoms.

VMs are no longer utilizing vSGA or vGPU resources properly.
In Horizon View, an automated VMs which use GRID or Hardware 3D settings fail to boot.
From an SSH session, the command /etc/init.d/xorg start shows:

Error: Unknown command or namespace graphics host refresh

This issue is observed in ESXi 6.0, Patch Release ESXi600-201706001.

This issue is resolved in ESXi 6.0 U3 P06, available at VMware Patch Downloads. For more information on downloading patch, see How to download patches in Customer Connect (1021623).

To Workaround this issue.

Download the attached file 2150498_xorg-temp.zip from the below attachment.
Extract the file to a local temp directory.
Log in to the ESXi through SSH.
SCP the extracted file to the ESXi using WinSCP.
Place the file in /tmp folder.
Change the file mode of the existing xorg file:

chmod +wt /etc/init.d/xorg
Rename the existing xorg file:

mv /etc/init.d/xorg /etc/init.d/xorg_old
Place the new xorg file in the original location:

cp /tmp/xorg_temp /etc/init.d/xorg
Change the file mode of the new file:

chmod 555 /etc/init.d/xorg
Run the command to start xorg

/etc/init.d/xorg start
Confirm that the status is running:

/etc/init.d/xorg status

Note:Do not reboot the host at this point. If the host needs to be rebooted, perform the preceding steps once again.

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