ESXi

I ran into an issue at work, where the iLO lost all its settings after a hardware intervention. The host was running fine and the iLO NIC was connected, but the IP configuration was missing. Because this is a remote site, it would be easy if the configuration could be set from within ESXi. Luckily, this is a possibility! Installing the tools The first thing we need to do is download the VIB from the HPE website. You can find the tools if you search for “HPE Utilities Offline Bundle”. Download the latest zip file, for your specific version of ESXi, and upload it somewhere on your ESXi host. ...

In the past few weeks, I’ve been in the process of updating several standalone ESXi hosts to 6.5. As you would expect, everything went smooth up to a certain point. Several hosts started failing and throwing this error: VIB LSI_bootbank_scsi-megaraid-perc9_6.901.55.00-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 requires vmkapi_2_0_0_0, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile. VIB LSI_bootbank_scsi-mpt3sas_04.00.00.00.1vmw-1OEM.500.0.0.472560 requires com.vmware.driverAPI-9.2.0.0, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile. The entire error is shown below. ...