After upgrading my vCenter Server to the latest vSphere 7.0 Update 1, I was unable to see ESXi 7.0 Update 1 Image. When I attempted to sync the updates I got the error “Download patch definitions task failed while syncing depots. Error: ‘integrity.fault.HostPatchInvalidVendorCode’.” Seeing as the error mentioned the depots, navigate to Menu->Lifecycle Manager and then select the Settings tab and then Patch Setup. ...
I’ve ran recently in to an issue where I couldn’t perform an update from the admin UI, in order to get up and running I executed the following from a ssh shell. I was luky enough to find the documentation here /usr/lib/applmgmt/support/scripts/software-packages.py install --url Some of the additional options that could be used software-packages stage --url software-packages install --staged I like to perform the update from the command line because it gives me additional information that I might not be able to see in the UI ...
I recently ran in to an issue where the vCenter server appliance update timed out. Rebooting the vCenter server brought the server back up but I was unable to log in to the administration section due to an Update installation in progress error Doing some research I found that there is a file that holds this information fount at /etc/applmgmt/appliance/software_update_state.conf At this point all I had to do was edit the file using vi ...