Remediating a Cluster or a Standalone Host Against a Single Image throws warning "These hosts have vibs installed which may get removed on remediating."

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi
• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

Remediating a Cluster or a Standalone Host Against a Single Image throws a warning "These hosts have vibs installed which may get removed on remediating."

Cause

It is expected to run into the above warnings when patching the host using a standard image/security patch while the host is running on a custom image. During the upgrades, the hosts expects the third-party drivers and VIB packages bundled with the existing image to exist on the new image, and if they are not available, then we run into the above warnings.

Resolution

1. Update the host using esxcli software profile:

Step 1: Apply the Patch Using esxcli software profile (Recommended for profile-based updates):

Run the command below to list the profile name from the Image:
esxcli software sources profile list -d <location of ZIP file>

Step 2:  Update the existing image profile by running the command below:

esxcli software profile update -p <profile_name> -d <location of ZIP file>

2. Use Single Image Cluster to remediate the host. 

For setting up Single Image - Single Image Setup

Additional Information

With the launch of vSphere 8.0, vSphere Lifecycle Manager Baselines (previously known as vSphere Update Manager VUM) is deprecated. The capability will continue to be supported, will remain in the product, and is available for use in vSphere 8, until its removal in the next Major release of vSphere.