Symptoms:
- NSX-T Data Center in-place upgrade
- ESXi host fails to upgrade
- On the ESXi host, /var/log/esxupdate.log shows an out of memory error for nsx-t-vsip module
2022-04-08T14:37:23Z esxupdate: 124631012: root: ERROR: Cannot load module nsx-esx-70u1/nsxt-vsip-19380480: Out of memory
2022-04-08T14:37:23Z esxupdate: 124631012: root: ERROR: vmkmod: VMKModLoad: VMKernel_LoadKernelModule(nsxt-vsip-19380480): Out of memory
2022-04-08T14:37:23Z esxupdate: 124631012: root: ERROR: Cannot load module nsx-esx-70u1/nsxt-vsip-19380480: Out of memory
2022-04-08T14:37:22Z esxupdate: 124631012: HostImage: DEBUG: installer LiveImageInstaller failed: VMware_bootbank_nsx-esx-datapath_3.1.3.7.0-7.0.19380480: VMware_bootbank_nsx-esx-datapath_3.1.3.7.0-7.0.19380480: Error in running [/etc/init.d/nsx-datapath-dl start upgrade]: Return code: 1 Output: start upgrade begin Exception: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/etc/init.d/nsx-datapath-dl", line 1154, in <module> DualLoadUpgrade() File "/etc/init.d/nsx-datapath-dl", line 979, in DualLoadUpgrade LoadKernelModules() File "/etc/init.d/nsx-datapath-dl", line 209, in LoadKernelModules nsxesxutils.loadModule(modName, modParam) File "/usr/lib/vmware/nsx-esx-datapath/lib/python3.5/nsxesxutils.py", line 462, in loadModule (moduleName, out.decode())) Exception: Failed to load module nsx-esx-70u1/nsxt-vsip-19380480: vmkmod: VMKModLoad: VMKernel_LoadKernelModule(nsxt-vsip-19380480): Out of memory