Hi everybody,
VMware Hypervisor 5.5.0 1623387 (booting on 8Gb usb key ! )
VCenter Server 5.5.0 1891313
Baseline list of patches defined, attached to esxi and when trying to transfer, error : host cannot download files from Library VMware vsphere update manager, verify network connectivity or firewall configuration.
VCenter + esxi are on same network, same physical switch.
firewall is disabled.
What's wrong ?
Thanks for any clue 
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Upgrading vCenter 4.0 on Win2003 to 5.0, Win2008R2 using the VMware vSphere 5.0 Upgrade method described by the pdf document.
I have the 2003 machine off, I did the backup.bat file and then the install.bat file. It installed vCenter Server and some other functions.
I am running the install.bat again and it is trying to install vSphere. I get the vSphere Update manager, it looks for vCenter Server locations and credentials.
I have confirmed the http port number but I get the vCenter Server entered is not readable error message.
I did the SQL studio manager, and confirmed the port number, I have message that it did install vCenter, but I dont see it running as a service.
what else can I try?
From my Googling there seems to be multiple causes for this error during Update Manager install, but none of the ones I've found seem to apply to my situation. I'm trying to install UM 5.5 u2 on Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard thats been fully patched, with a remote SQL Server 2012 SP1 server (another instance on same server is SP2 but I dont think that matters) using a 32bit DSN. I've seen the issue about 32+ character passwords causing this, and that's certainly not my case. Though I have tried simpifying it since nothing else has worked. I'm using a SQL server user & SQL authentication (though my vCenter server uses Windows authentication with its DB), I've even given that user full admin privs in SQL server & to the msdb & UM databases explicitly. I'm currently using this in evaluation mode as I'm evaluating vSphere and this isn't leaving a good impression so far. I havn't tried using the included SQL express as I've got a real SQL server thats maintained so I shouldn't need to. Is there something else I'm missing?
Here is the environment I am presented:
3 vCenter Servers running 5.5 Update 2 (2 VCSA 1 Windows install)
3 VUM instances
No access to the Internet. Patches have to be downloaded on a separate PC and imported manually. Is there a way to import the patches to one instances of VUM and have the repository replicate to the other instances of VUM?
Hello!
I cannot enable vCenter Update Manager plugin in vSphere Client. It shows to download and install but never enable after install. It's working in vSphere Web Client (Scan).
Software:
vSphere Client 5.5
vSphere Update Manager 5.5 Update 2
VMware vCenter Server Appliance 5.5.0.20100 Build 2170515 with VMware vSphere Data Protection 5.8
Any idea how to resolve this problem?
Thank You in Advance,
Carlos
I'm looking for an official statement/documentation about support for SQL Express for the UMDS in vSphere 5.5.
According to the Update Manager documentation a maximum of 5 hosts and 50 VM's is supported with the SQL Express edition. Although I think that from a technical point of view, this limitation is a relict from older versions, and should be reviewed, I can live with it. However, I rather don't want to purchase another SQL Server license just for the Update Manager Service (UMDS) - which runs in a DMZ - if this isn't really required. The documentation only says "Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Express instance (for small scale deployments)". However, I don't actually understand why/how the size of the environment is related to UMDS, and it seems like overkill to me to have a full blown SQL database to just maintain a list of patches.
I have to plan and setup a fully supported environment, so it's important to have official statements/documentation.
André
Decided to migrate my update manager db today to a sql server we have virtualized. Everything went fairly smooth. I needed to reinstall the plugin due to a new certificate being implemented so after doing all that and getting everything reconnected the plugin loaded fine.
When i go to scan if I leave "patches and extensions" and "upgrades" checked the plugin breaks and I have to wait a bit and reenable it. If I just scan for "patches and extensions" it works fine and if I just scan for "upgrades" it breaks.
My SQL DBA says that I'm only hitting one database and no other connections are trying to be made but maybe we missed something?
Has anyone had an issue like this before?
Thanks,
Hi--
I have a particularly troublesome update that my VM host says is unneeded when I try to load it (using ESXCLI), but that is marked as necessary after scans, and gets staged on the VMhost.
I know that I can eliminate the issue by removing the update from the baseline, but I'd like to investigate further.
I'd like to look at what is getting staged-- and would also just like to know where things go when they get staged.
Thanks in advance.
Hi All,
This is my first time posting so please let me know if I am doing this wrong.
How would I go about patching ESXi5.5 hosts using the Web Client? I can scan/attach patches and I have migrated VM’s. Also, I have entered into maintenance mode. Just don’t know what my next move should be.
Any help would be appreciated!
Hello all guys,
I encountered a very interesting problem here ,I should let u all know , to see if you can help investigate ,
I was upgrade Esxi host from 5.1 U1 to 5.1 U2 build 174xxx .
I attached baseline group to cluster .(20 more hosts).
then scan whole cluster while all cluster were running well .
I found it's was quite slow while scanning . so , I canceled scanning .
now I got some tasks on vsphere client.
1. scanning cluster ....cancelling..
2. cancel scanning ....xx% ,
3.host 01xx upgraded complete .
to see event of host 01xx, I saw a vm on this host was restarted on other host by HA, also have a HA event.
this happened on 3 hosts , and 4 vms were restarted by HA , so I disable HA immediately , then nothing happened.
I want to know , if scan and cancel scan can cause host HA ?
AND WHY THIS HAPPENED.?
Scan should be a very safe action. why it caused VM restarted.
VMware support can't give me a suitable reason.
my cluster enabled HA, admission control , DRS , but no vm monitoring ..
Did anyone of you encounter this ? I need to know WHY!
So, we upgraded hosts from Dell image of 5.5.0 to 5.5.0U1 using Update manager to remediate. After upgrade, it shows non-compliant. Another host which had ESXi installed from scratch with the same ISO image (Not through update manger) shows compliant. When I compare the VIB versions of the two hosts, I see the following differences.
elxnet
sesxm02: 10.0.575.7-1OEM.550.0.0.1198611
sesxc08: 10.0.783.13-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820
lpfc
sesxm02: 10.0.575.8-1OEM.550.0.0.1198611
sesxc08: 10.0.727.44-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820
net-be2net
sesxm02: 3.2.0.0-1OEM.500.0.0.472560
sesxc08: 4.6.100.0v-1vmw.550.0.0.1331820
net-r8168
sesxm02: 8.013.00-3vmw.510.0.0.799733
sesxc08: Missing
net-r8169
sesxm02: 6.011.00-2vmw.510.0.0.799733
sesxc08: Missing
net-s2io
sesxm02: 2.1.4.13427-3vmw.510.0.0.799733
sesxc08: Missing
net-sky2
sesxm02: 1.20-2vmw.510.0.0.799733
sesxc08: Missing
scsi-bfa
sesxm02: 3.2.1.0-1OEM.500.0.0.472560
sesxc08: Missing
scsi-lpfc820
sesxm02: Missing
sesxc08: 8.2.3.1-129vmw.550.0.0.1331820
scsi-qla2xxx
sesxm02: 2.4.10-1OEM.500.0.0.472560
sesxc08: 902.k1.1-9vmw.550.0.0.1331820
scsi-qla2xxx
sesxm02: 934.5.20.0-1OEM.500.0.0.472560
sesxc08: Missing
tools-light
sesxm02: 5.5.0-1.16.1746018
sesxc08: 5.5.0-2.39.2143827
vcloud-agent
sesxm02: Missing
sesxc08: 5.5.0-1280396
What can cause this? What's the difference between upgrading vs install from scratch? Is this expected behavior?
I am trying to use Update Manager to upgrade ESXi 5.1 to ESXi5.5. I am getting the error "Cannot create a ramdisk of the size 333mb to store the upgrade image."
The ESXi has plenty of disk/ram left.
I have researched and found an issue where the scratchconfig was pointing at a non-existent device. I set the scratchconfig and rebooted.
After the reboot in the new folder I did see the various var,core,logs etc folders, however I still get this Cannot create ramdisk error when trying to upgrade.
I tried from various articles /vmfs/volumes/datastore uuid/.locker-host and /vmfs/volumes/datastore uuid/scratch, both with the same result.
I confirmed I can write in these new folders.
Everytime the log still says ERROR', test 'SPACE_AVAIL_ISO', expected '349773754', found '0' despite the scracthconfig.
What I am doing wrong?
Hi All,
Am upgrading one of my vCenter from vCenter 5.5 to vCenter 5.5 U2B, all the installations like inventory services, vCenter service, installation went successfull , except the Update Manager.
I have given the DB credentials when it asked , the screen got struck for hours , i have tried rebooting the vCenter server and restarted the installation , still update manager installation stuck at same place.
Does any one came across such incident, what you guys did to resolve it.
Thanks a ton in Advance.
Hi!
Upgrade from Update Manger Version 5.5.0.19906 to 5.5.0 U2b failed with error Message: "The vCenter Server is incompatible with the Vmware vSphere Update Manager you are installing. Please select a compatible vCenter Server."
The upgrade from the vCenter Server works fine. I also found in the Logfiles:
[installerRunVCCommand, 379] [VCSERVER] vc version = 5.5.0, installer supported version = 5.5.0, installer supported api version = 5.5.0, installer supports VC build no >= 1883858
[2014-11-11 14:32:58:176 '' 13184 DEBUG] [installerRunVCCommand, 288] [VCSERVER] return code from vc check version = 103
[2014-11-11 14:32:58:176 '' 13184 DEBUG] [installerRunVCCommand, 349] [VCSERVER] returning code = 103 from vc check.
Many Thanks for help
Manfred
Hi All,
Recently i installed vSphere update manger 5.5 update1, with oracle database, when i try to upgrade the ESXi 5.5 update2 and when i click on scan and scanning is getting hunged at 47% where my vCenter and update manager are installed on two different VMs with proper resource allocation. Can anyone send me the solution for this issue.
Regards,
PRATAP.
Hi,
I am having issues installing new patches via update manager, what I am trying to do is to get USB3 working by installing the October patch and I thought this would be simple via update manager.
I have run the Start which runs without issue and when I run the Remediate it gets to about 95% and fails with the error below
Remediate entity
192.168.202.187
The host returns esxupdate error
code:15. The package manager
transaction is not successful. Check
the Update Manager log files and
esxupdate log files for more details.
ASL-LAN\jhaines
ASL-SSC8.asl.lan
12/12/2014 17:32:24
12/12/2014 17:32:24
12/12/2014 17:33:23
I have checked the esxupdate.log and I see the error below about "cannot be live installed.", I have checked disk space and all the normal stuff any ideas?
2014-12-15T09:22:16Z esxupdate: LiveImageInstaller: DEBUG: The transaction is not supported for live install:
['VIB VMware_bootbank_esx-base_5.5.0-2.39.2143827 cannot be live installed.', 'VIB VMware_bootbank_misc-drivers_5.5.0-2.39.2143827 cannot be live installed.', 'VIB VMware_bootbank_xhci-xhci_1.0-2vmw.550.2.39.2143827 cannot be live installed.', 'VIB VMware_bootbank_sata-ahci_3.0-21vmw.550.2.39.2143827 cannot be live installed.', 'VIB VMware_bootbank_net-vmxnet3_1.1.3.0-3vmw.550.2.39.2143827 cannot be live installed.', 'VIB VMware_bootbank_misc-drivers_5.5.0-2.33.2068190 cannot be removed live.', 'VIB VMware_bootbank_net-vmxnet3_1.1.3.0-3vmw.550.0.0.1331820 cannot be removed live.', 'VIB VMware_bootbank_sata-ahci_3.0-20vmw.550.2.33.2068190 cannot be removed live.', 'VIB VMware_bootbank_esx-base_5.5.0-2.33.2068190 cannot be removed live.']
2014-12-15T09:22:16Z esxupdate: HostImage: INFO: LiveImageInstaller is not supported, skipping.
2014-12-15T09:22:16Z esxupdate: esxupdate: ERROR: An esxupdate error exception was caught:
2014-12-15T09:22:16Z esxupdate: esxupdate: ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last):
2014-12-15T09:22:16Z esxupdate: esxupdate: ERROR: File "/usr/sbin/esxupdate", line 216, in main
2014-12-15T09:22:16Z esxupdate: esxupdate: ERROR: cmd.Run()
2014-12-15T09:22:16Z esxupdate: esxupdate: ERROR: File "/build/mts/release/bora-2068190/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib/python2.6/site-packages/vmware/esx5update/Cmdline.py", line 144, in Run
2014-12-15T09:22:16Z esxupdate: esxupdate: ERROR: File "/build/mts/release/bora-2068190/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib/python2.6/site-packages/vmware/esximage/Transaction.py", line 245, in InstallVibsFromSources
2014-12-15T09:22:16Z esxupdate: esxupdate: ERROR: File "/build/mts/release/bora-2068190/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib/python2.6/site-packages/vmware/esximage/Transaction.py", line 347, in _installVibs
2014-12-15T09:22:16Z esxupdate: esxupdate: ERROR: File "/build/mts/release/bora-2068190/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib/python2.6/site-packages/vmware/esximage/Transaction.py", line 390, in _validateAndInstallProfile
2014-12-15T09:22:16Z esxupdate: esxupdate: ERROR: File "/build/mts/release/bora-2068190/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib/python2.6/site-packages/vmware/esximage/HostImage.py", line 717, in Stage
2014-12-15T09:22:16Z esxupdate: esxupdate: ERROR: InstallationError: ('', 'The transaction is not supported: VIB VMware_bootbank_esx-base_5.5.0-2.39.2143827 cannot be live installed. VIB VMware_bootbank_misc-drivers_5.5.0-2.39.2143827 cannot be live installed. VIB VMware_bootbank_xhci-xhci_1.0-2vmw.550.2.39.2143827 cannot be live installed. VIB VMware_bootbank_sata-ahci_3.0-21vmw.550.2.39.2143827 cannot be live installed. VIB VMware_bootbank_net-vmxnet3_1.1.3.0-3vmw.550.2.39.2143827 cannot be live installed. VIB VMware_bootbank_misc-drivers_5.5.0-2.33.2068190 cannot be removed live. VIB VMware_bootbank_net-vmxnet3_1.1.3.0-3vmw.550.0.0.1331820 cannot be removed live. VIB VMware_bootbank_sata-ahci_3.0-20vmw.550.2.33.2068190 cannot be removed live. VIB VMware_bootbank_esx-base_5.5.0-2.33.2068190 cannot be removed live.')
2014-12-15T09:22:16Z esxupdate: esxupdate: DEBUG: <<<
2014-12-15T09:22:20Z esxupdate: vmware.runcommand: INFO: runcommand called with: args = '['/sbin/esxcfg-advcfg', '-q', '-g', '/UserVars/EsximageNetTimeout']', outfile = 'None', returnoutput = 'True', timeout = '0.0'.
2014-12-15T09:22:20Z esxupdate: vmware.runcommand: INFO: runcommand called with: args = '['/sbin/esxcfg-advcfg', '-q', '-g', '/UserVars/EsximageNetRetries']', outfile = 'None', returnoutput = 'True', timeout = '0.0'.
2014-12-15T09:22:20Z esxupdate: vmware.runcommand: INFO: runcommand called with: args = '['/sbin/esxcfg-advcfg', '-q', '-g', '/UserVars/EsximageNetRateLimit']', outfile = 'None', returnoutput = 'True', timeout = '0.0'.
2014-12-15T09:22:20Z esxupdate: esxupdate: INFO: ---
Thanks
Julian
Anyone have any ideas why SQL Server Management Studio won't install on a VUM running on Windows 2008 Server?
I get an error indicating that SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 or greater need to be applied first.
When I attempt to install any SP (SP3, SP4), I get the error: The Instance ID is required or missing.
The database version is: 10.51.2500.0
Searched a lot but no luck so far.
Or any other suggestions how to backup the database.
Thx,
Hello,
after a fresh installation of VUM 5.5.0u1a with SQL embedded connected to a vCenter server Appliance same version, I can't see any VUM events in the admin view with the error "Failed to retrieve data" as you can see in the screenshot below.
Everything else is working properly (patch, download, scan, remediate, etc.)
Any idea ?
Regards,
Hi All,
i have the following issue on Update Manager 5.5 Update2b installed on Win2012R2.
The Extension plugin is not present only from vSphere Web Client (from plugin tab is not present).
From vSphere Client i can install and use correctly the plugin an the Update Manager.
The service start correctly and the path is standard during installation.
I have tried to reinstall it but issue is the same.
Any idea for fix this issue, or similar case?
Thanks and regards
Luca
Recently upgraded to 5.5 Update 2. Upgraded update manager now when trying to patch the hosts it fails with the error:
"VMware vsphere update manager had an unknown error. Check the events and log files for details."
This happens more or less straight away after clicking remediate. I don't seem to be able to find any log related to it nor is there anything useful in events tab.
Any ideas?