Symptoms:
- Post ESXi host upgrade to 7.0U1 customers are not seeing the bootbank, altbootbank as shown in the below screenshot
- You will see similar log entries in ESXi host logs /var/log/jumpstart-native-stdout.log
2020-11-16T19:49:52.695Z| Method start executed successfully for plugin vsan-devel
This script is deprecated
2020-11-16T19:49:52.728Z| Method start executed successfully for plugin nvme-nguid-config
[ConfigStore:843020364928:] [2000] API cannot be invoked with EXTERNAL context during boot
FcoeConfig: Unable to write config for nic:vmnic0 e:0 priority:18446744073709551615 vn2vn:0-65535 Reason:API cannot be invoked with EXTERNAL context during boot
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/build/mts/release/bora-16850804/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/systemStorage/esxdisk.py", line 65, in execLocalcli
File "/build/mts/release/bora-16850804/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib64/python3.5/site-packages/esxutils.py", line 220, in runCli
esxutils.EsxcliError: Errors:
Unable to list SCSI HBAs. API cannot be invoked with EXTERNAL context during boot
- NOTE :- There is a similar symptom , where post upgrade to vSphere 7.0 Update 1 the Bootbank loads to /tmp/ and The storage-path-claim service claims the storage device ESXi is installed on during startup. This causes the bootbank/altbootbank image to become unavailable and the ESXi host reverts to ramdisk.