VIB

Today I was preparing some updates with VUM on Lenovo servers running vSphere 6.0. Things did not go as expected. While staging the patches I was greeted with this error. ERROR: The host returns esxupdate error code:15. The package manager transactions is not successful. Check the update Manager log files and esxupdate.log files for more details. Looking into the esxupdate.log file I could find the following entries: 2018-10-08T08:23:18Z esxupdate: 31744883: BootBankInstaller.pyc: ERROR: The pending transaction requires 242 MB free space, however the maximum supported size is 239 MB. 2018-10-08T08:23:18Z esxupdate: 31744883: esxupdate: ERROR: An esxupdate error exception was caught: 2018-10-08T08:23:18Z esxupdate: 31744883: esxupdate: ERROR: Traceback (most recent call last): 2018-10-08T08:23:18Z esxupdate: 31744883: esxupdate: ERROR: File "/usr/sbin/esxupdate", line 238, in main 2018-10-08T08:23:18Z esxupdate: 31744883: esxupdate: ERROR: cmd.Run() 2018-10-08T08:23:18Z esxupdate: 31744883: esxupdate: ERROR: File "/build/mts/release/bora-5572656/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vmware/esx5update/Cmdline.py", line 148, in Run 2018-10-08T08:23:18Z esxupdate: 31744883: esxupdate: ERROR: File "/build/mts/release/bora-5572656/bora/build/esx/release/vmvisor/sys-boot/lib/python2.7/site-packages/vmware/esximage/Transaction.py", line 250, in InstallVibsFromSources ...

Today I got my shiny new host for the homelab. After installing ESXi, I noticed the 10 Gbit NICs weren’t being detected. After looking around a bit I found the drivers in the form of a VIB. Start by uploading the VIB to a datastore that is accessible to the host. Turn on the SSH service in the security section and fire up a session. Once connected run esxcli software vib install -v /vmfs/volumes/NAS1-iSCSI/net-ixgbe_4.4.1-1OEM.600.0.0.2159203.vib ...