Patching ESXi by command line fails with error: Could not download from depot at zip:/var/log/vmware/VMware-ESXi-X-version-depot.zip. No such file or directory

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Updating VMware ESXi host failing with below error:

Metadata download error.

Could not  download from depot at zip:/var/log/vmware/VMware-ESXi-X-version-depot.zip. No such file or directory /var/log/vmware/VMware-ESXi-X-version-depot.zip

Environment

VMware ESXi 8.0

VMware ESXi 7.0

Cause

Please make sure you are using numbers when specifying ESXi versions, for example ESXi 8.O3 will give an error because instead of number "0" you are using letter "O"

Please make sure you are specifying correct full paths to where your bundle is uploaded.

Resolution

Please refer to Patching ESXi host using Command Line