This article provides the details and conditions when upgrading a VMware vSphere ESXi host that was deployed or installed using a custom installation image.
Symptoms:
After you upgrade a vSphere ESXi host to a later major version, you experience these symptoms:
<CONFLICTING_VIBS ERROR: Vibs on the host are conflicting with vibs in metadata, Remove the conflicting vibs or use Image Builder to create a custom ISO providing newer versions of the conflicting vibs.<br>['name_of_conflicting_vib'}>
The upgrade contains the following set of conflicting VIBs:
name_of_conflicting_vib1
name_of_conflicting_vib2
...
Remove the conflicting VIBs or use IMage Builder to create a custom Upgrade ISO image that contains the newer versions of the conflicting VIBs, and try the upgrade again.
During an upgrading to a later major release of vSphere ESXi, these conditions must be met if the host was initially installed using a custom image of vSphere ESXi:
esxcli software vib list
When updating vSphere ESXi to a minor patch or version release, VMware recommends verifying the compatibility of device firmware, BIOS, third-party drivers and custom VIB packages with the new version of vSphere ESXi. If the third-party device driver, custom VIB package, BIOS or device firmware version are not compatible, upgrade the component to a compatible version. For more information on device compatibility, see the VMware Compatibility Guide.
For more information on upgrading third-party device drivers and VIB packages, see Download and install async drivers in VMware ESXi.
Correlating build numbers and versions of VMware products
Download and install async drivers in VMware ESXi