Scan ESXi host with baseline of vSphere Lifecycle Manager failed with "Cannot copy files to host data.host. Check the management service status, network connectivity with vCenter and disk space on the host."

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

• ESXi patched by vSphere Lifecycle Manager with baseline.
• The patching failed at 'scan entity' task with below messages:
  
  Cannot copy files to host data.host. Check the management service status, network connectivity with vCenter and disk space on the host.

Environment

VMware vCenter server 7.x
VMware vCenter server 8.x

Resolution

To workaround this issue, use esxcli command line to patch ESXi host by referring the KB Patching ESXi host using command line