Unknown Installer error when configuring HA post vCenter upgrade
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Unknown Installer error when configuring HA post vCenter upgrade

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Article ID: 393121

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Products

VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

After updating vCenter the vsphere HA FDM vib is not updated on the esxi host. 

 

esxi is trying to access a datastore that is no longer presented

Environment

vCenter 7.0

vCenter 8.0

Cause

Datastore was removed from esxi without correctly unmounting. 

Resolution

Rescan the filesystems presented to the host which may remove the legacy references

 

1. esxcli storage core adapter rescan -a
2. vmkfstools -V
3. /etc/init.d/hostd restart

 

ESXi host upgrade / Vib upgrade via CLI fails with the error message "Failed to query file system stats: Errors:"