While upgrading ESXi from 7.0U2a to 7.0U3c with the below addons, remediation fails with internal error while staging/remediating the host.
On vCenter 7.0U3c, remediation fails with the below vendors:
On vCenter 8.0U1, remediation fails with the below vendors:
ESXi logs - /var/log/lifecycle
2024-03-27T08:04:13Z lifecycle: 135565: Ramdisk:176 INFO Unmounting manual tardisk /tardisks.noauto/loadesx-135565
2024-03-27T08:04:13Z lifecycle: 135565: imagemanagerctl:147 ERROR [InstallationError] VMware_bootbank_esx-base_7.0.3-0.20.19193900: Failed to update bootloader: [Errno 28] No space left on device
2024-03-27T08:04:13Z lifecycle: 135565: imagemanagerctl:152 ERROR Traceback (most recent call last):
2024-03-27T08:04:13Z lifecycle: 135565: imagemanagerctl:152 ERROR File "/tmp/esx-update-135565/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/vmware/esximage/Installer/BootBankInstaller.py", line 1401, in _SysStorageBootPartAction
2024-03-27T08:04:13Z lifecycle: 135565: imagemanagerctl:152 ERROR File "/tmp/esx-update-135565/usr/lib/vmware/esxupdate/systemStorage.zip/systemStorage/esxboot.py", line 227, in installBootloader
2024-03-27T08:04:13Z lifecycle: 135565: imagemanagerctl:152 ERROR File "/tmp/esx-update-135565/usr/lib/vmware/esxupdate/systemStorage.zip/systemStorage/esxboot.py", line 98, in installBiosBootloader
2024-03-27T08:04:13Z lifecycle: 135565: imagemanagerctl:152 ERROR File "/tmp/esx-update-135565/usr/lib/vmware/esxupdate/systemStorage.zip/systemStorage/vfat.py", line 795, in mcopy
2024-03-27T08:04:13Z lifecycle: 135565: imagemanagerctl:152 ERROR File "/tmp/esx-update-135565/usr/lib/vmware/esxupdate/systemStorage.zip/systemStorage/vfat.py", line 765, in _mtools
2024-03-27T08:04:13Z lifecycle: 135565: imagemanagerctl:152 ERROR File "/lib64/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 489, in run
2024-03-27T08:04:13Z lifecycle: 135565: imagemanagerctl:152 ERROR File "/lib64/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 854, in __init__
2024-03-27T08:04:13Z lifecycle: 135565: imagemanagerctl:152 ERROR File "/lib64/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 1637, in _execute_child
2024-03-27T08:04:13Z lifecycle: 135565: imagemanagerctl:152 ERROR OSError: [Errno 28] No space left on device
2024-03-27T08:04:13Z lifecycle: 135565: imagemanagerctl:152 ERROR
2024-03-27T08:04:13Z lifecycle: 135565: imagemanagerctl:152 ERROR During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
2024-03-27T08:04:13Z lifecycle: 135565: imagemanagerctl:152 ERROR
2024-03-27T08:04:13Z lifecycle: 135565: imagemanagerctl:152 ERROR Traceback (most recent call last):
2024-03-27T08:04:13Z lifecycle: 135565: imagemanagerctl:152 ERROR File "/usr/lib/vmware/lifecycle/bin/imagemanagerctl.py", line 636, in software
2024-03-27T08:04:13Z lifecycle: 135565: imagemanagerctl:152 ERROR t.ApplyImage(swSpec, opts.depots, opts.taskId)
2024-03-27T08:04:13Z lifecycle: 135565: imagemanagerctl:152 ERROR File "/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/vmware/esximage/Transaction.py", line 1891, in ApplyImage
2024-03-27T08:04:13Z lifecycle: 135565: imagemanagerctl:152 ERROR res = NewTransaction.Transaction().PerformImageApply(newProfile,
2024-03-27T08:04:13Z lifecycle: 135565: imagemanagerctl:152 ERROR File "/tmp/esx-update-135565/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/vmware/esximage/Transaction.py", line 1995, in PerformImageApply
2024-03-27T08:04:13Z lifecycle: 135565: imagemanagerctl:152 ERROR File "/tmp/esx-update-135565/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/vmware/esximage/Transaction.py", line 1252, in _applyImageProfile
2024-03-27T08:04:13Z lifecycle: 135565: imagemanagerctl:152 ERROR File "/tmp/esx-update-135565/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/vmware/esximage/Transaction.py", line 1398, in _validateAndInstallProfile
2024-03-27T08:04:13Z lifecycle: 135565: imagemanagerctl:152 ERROR File "/tmp/esx-update-135565/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/vmware/esximage/HostImage.py", line 1195, in Remediate
2024-03-27T08:04:13Z lifecycle: 135565: imagemanagerctl:152 ERROR File "/tmp/esx-update-135565/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/vmware/esximage/Installer/BootBankInstaller.py", line 1679, in Remediate
2024-03-27T08:04:13Z lifecycle: 135565: imagemanagerctl:152 ERROR File "/tmp/esx-update-135565/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/vmware/esximage/Installer/BootBankInstaller.py", line 1461, in _UpdateBootloader
2024-03-27T08:04:13Z lifecycle: 135565: imagemanagerctl:152 ERROR File "/tmp/esx-update-135565/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/vmware/esximage/Installer/BootBankInstaller.py", line 1404, in _SysStorageBootPartAction
2024-03-27T08:04:13Z lifecycle: 135565: imagemanagerctl:152 ERROR esximage.Errors.InstallationError: VMware_bootbank_esx-base_7.0.3-0.20.19193900: Failed to update bootloader: [Errno 28] No space left on device
This is due to a resource pool limitation.
Manually reboot the host.