ESXi Host Reporting "/usr/sbin/esxupdate returned with exit status: 15"

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

ESXi hosts in a vCenter Server environment consistently display the following warning:

"/usr/sbin/esxupdate returned with exit status: 15"

/var/log/esxupdate.log
<YYYY-MM-DD>T<time> Er(11) esxupdate[2930789]: An esxupdate error exception was caught:
<YYYY-MM-DD>T<time> Er(11) esxupdate[2930789]: Traceback (most recent call last):
<YYYY-MM-DD>T<time> Er(11) esxupdate[2930789]:   File "/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/vmware/esximage/Utils/HostInfo.py", line 225, in _getFileSystemList
<YYYY-MM-DD>T<time> Er(11) esxupdate[2930789]:     return runCli(cmd, True)
<YYYY-MM-DD>T<time> Er(11) esxupdate[2930789]:   File "/lib64/python3.8/site-packages/esxutils.py", line 222, in runCli
<YYYY-MM-DD>T<time> Er(11) esxupdate[2930789]:     esxutils.EsxcliError: Errors:
<YYYY-MM-DD>T<time> Er(11) esxupdate[2930789]:     Error getting data for filesystem on '/vmfs/volumes/<datastore name-#########>': Cannot open
<YYYY-MM-DD>T<time> Er(11) esxupdate[2930789]: During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Environment

VMware ESXi 8.0.x

Cause

The datastore datastore name-######### (UUID: #########-...) is in an abnormal or inaccessible state, causing a fatal exception in the ESXi management agents during a standard volume scan.

Resolution

Need to fix abnormal or inaccessible datastore issue.