[RELEASE NOTES] VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 3c Release Notes

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi 8.0

Issue/Introduction

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VMware ESXi 8.0 Update 3c | 12 DEC 2024 | Build 24414501

This release resolves an issue with vSphere vMotion tasks that fail with an error NamespaceMgr could not lock the db file.

Environment

VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi) Offline Bundle

Build Details

Download Filename	VMware-ESXi-8.0U3c-24414501-depot.zip
Build	24414501
Download Size	629.0 MB
SHA256 checksum	58d0632d3e51adf26ffacce57873e72ff41151d92a8378234f2daa476f2cfba5
Host Reboot Required	Yes
Virtual Machine Migration or Shutdown Required	Yes

Resolution

Resolved Issues:

• vSphere vMotion tasks fail with an error NamespaceMgr could not lock the db file
  
  When virtual machines are configured with namespaces, an issue with the namespace database might cause migration of such VMs with vSphere vMotion to fail. In the vSphere Client, you see errors such as:
  
  Failed to receive migration. The source detected that the destination failed to resume.

An error occurred restoring the virtual machine state during migration.NamespaceMgr could not lock the db file.
  
  The destination ESXi host vmware.log shows the following messages:
  
  [YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS] In(05) vmx - [msg.checkpoint.migration.failedReceive] Failed to receive migration.
[YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS] In(05) vmx - [msg.namespaceMgr.noLock] NamespaceMgr could not lock the db file.
  
  The issue is more likely to occur on VMs with hardware version earlier than 19, and impacts only VMs provisioned on shared datastores other than NFS, such as VMFS, vSAN, and vSphere Virtual Volumes.
  
  This issue was reported as known in KB 369767 and is resolved in this release.

Patch Download and Installation

Log in to the Broadcom Support Portal to download this patch.

For download instructions, see Download Broadcom products and software.

For details on updates and upgrades by using vSphere Lifecycle Manager, see About vSphere Lifecycle Manager and vSphere Lifecycle Manager Baselines and Images. You can also update
ESXi hosts without the use of vSphere Lifecycle Manager by using an image profile. To do this, you must manually download the patch offline bundle ZIP file.

For more information, see the Upgrading Hosts by Using ESXCLI Commands, and the VMware ESXi Upgrade guide.