ESXi host upgrade cannot be initiated with warning "There are no images available to match the required target version to initiate vLCM upgrade"

Products

• VMware SDDC Manager

Issue/Introduction

While upgrading ESXi hosts on SDDC manager, there are no target images available to select and wizard gives below error:

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Environment

VMware Cloud Foundation 5.x

Cause

This warning is seen when an image corresponding to the target ESXi version is not imported to SDDC manager.

Resolution

Step 1: Upload the Package to vLCM in the vSphere Client 

1. Login to the vCenter UI with the administrator credentials. 
2. Navigate to Menu > Lifecycle Manager. 
3. Select the correct vCenter > Actions > Import Updates. 
4. Browse to the location of the VMware-ESXi-build-buildNumber-depot.zip and click Import.

Ex: VMware-ESXi-8.0U3c-24366043-depot.zip

Step 2: Edit Image and Validate 

1. Right click on the datacenter and create a new test cluster. 
2. Select the option to Create a new image and on the next page select the imported image. 

Step 3: Import into SDDC Manager 

1. Login to the SDDC Manager UI with administrator credentials. 
2. Go into Lifecycle Management > Image Management. 
3. From the Import Management page select the Workload Domain, test cluster that was created and the correct image. 
4. Wait for the task to complete in SDDC Manager. Once it is complete the Image is available for use for the ESXi upgrade(s) through SDDC Manager. 

 

Additional Information

Upgrade ESXi with vSphere Lifecycle Manager Images for VMware Cloud Foundation 5.2