Unable to update vSAN witness appliances to match ESXi version using VCSA

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi
• VMware vSAN
• VMware vSAN 8.x
• VMware vSAN 7.x
• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

When attempting to update vSAN witness appliances to match the same version as ESXi you may not be shown the most recent versions as available options using baselines or image based updates/upgrades.

Environment

VMware vSAN
VMware ESXi 7.x
VMware ESXi 8.x
VMware vCenter 7.x
VMware vCenter 8.x

Cause

The download repositories are now protected by a token based authentication and not able to sync the more recent versions of ESXi to be able to perform the update/upgrade.

Resolution

Please refer to the following KB to make sure you have obtained and configured the necessary tokens/URLs:

VCF authenticated downloads configuration update instructions