Symptoms:
- Patching / Upgrading ESXi 7.0 may fail if you had NSX-V with VXLAN enabled on a vSphere Distributed Switch (VDS) of version 7.0 and migrated to NSX-T Data Center by using NSX V2T migration.
- vCenter Server UI will below error message while remediating the hosts using vCenter Server Lifecycle Manager (vLCM or VUM)
An error occurred during host configuration.VMware vSphere Lifecycle Manager had an unknown error. Check the events and log files for details.
- vLCM / VUM logs will show below failure log entries :
/var/log/vmware/vmware-updatemgr/vum-server/vmware-vum-server.log
2021-12-17T17:30:42.851Z info vmware-vum-server[09882] [Originator@6876 sub=VciRemediateTask.RemediateTask{146}] [vciTaskBase 1372] SerializeToVimFault fault:
--> (integrity.fault.VcIntegrityFault) {
--> faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
--> faultMessage = <unset>
--> msg = "Install error on host: test-esx01.vmware.com, error details: Platform Configuration Error: /usr/sbin/esxupdate returned with exit status: 32"
--> }
--> Converted fault:
--> (vim.fault.ExtendedFault) {
--> faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
--> faultMessage = <unset>,
--> faultTypeId = "com.vmware.vcIntegrity.VcIntegrityFault",
--> data = (vim.KeyValue) [
--> (vim.KeyValue) {
--> key = "faultCause",
--> value = ""
--> },
--> (vim.KeyValue) {
--> key = "faultMessage",
--> value = ""
--> }
--> ]
--> msg = "Install error on host: test-esx01.vmware.com, error details: Platform Configuration Error: /usr/sbin/esxupdate returned with exit status: 32"
--> }
2021-12-17T17:30:42.851Z info vmware-vum-server[09882] [Originator@6876 sub=VciRemediateTask.RemediateTask{146}] [vciTaskBase 1680] Description updated
2021-12-17T17:30:42.855Z info vmware-vum-server[09882] [Originator@6876 sub=VciRemediateTask.RemediateTask{146}] [vciTaskBase 1390] VciTask { id: RemediateTask{146}, type: com.vmware.vcIntegrity.RemediateTask }: Setting VC task state to: error
2021-12-17T17:30:42.866Z info vmware-vum-server[09882] [Originator@6876 sub=VciRemediateTask.RemediateTask{146}] [vciTaskBase 203] Delete VC task from database: task-152923