Unable to Import ESXi 8.0 ISO Images in vSphere 7.0 Lifecycle Manager

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

When attempting to import an ESXi 8.x ISO image into vSphere 7.x Lifecycle Manager using the Import ISO option, the operation fails with the error message: The operation failed with the error: "Uploading offline patches task failed while creating offline depot error integrity.fault.hostPatchNotSupportedBundle."

Environment

vCenter server 7.x

Cause

vSphere Lifecycle Manager 7.0 has specific version compatibility restrictions:

• It can only use ESXi 7.0 or 6.7 ISO images for host upgrades
• It cannot perform ESXi upgrades to version 8.0 since the vcenter is in 7.0 (VLCM)

vLCM is version-dependent and adheres strictly to compatibility matrices. ESXi 8.0 bundles require vLCM to be running on a vCenter Server 8.0 or later environment. Uploading incompatible bundles is therefore blocked by design.

Resolution

It is recommended that the vCenter Server be upgraded to version 8.0. Once this upgrade has been completed, the ESXi can be patched to 8.0.