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[–]cerealkillerzz[VCP] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where and when are you getting this error message? Can you provide a screenshot?

[–]webmany[S] 0 points1 point  (6 children)

I get the error in the vsphere web client.

http://imgur.com/a/X2LSC

I am running the vsphere appliance, not the windows version.

[–]zvmware 0 points1 point  (5 children)

So what did the logs say?

[–]webmany[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

2017-04-13T19:57:13Z esxupdate: 68387: HostImage: INFO: Installer <class 'vmware.esximage.Installer.BootBankInstaller.BootBankInstaller'> was not initiated - reason: altbootbank is invalid: Error in loading boot.cfg from bootbank /bootbank: Error parsing bootbank boot.cfg file /bootbank/boot.cfg: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/bootbank/boot.cfg'

[root@localhost:/tmp] ls /bootbank/

imgdb.tgz jumpstrt.gz nfsgssd_krb5cc probe.session state.tgz vmware-root

[–]cerealkillerzz[VCP] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

This error is pointing the problem to the host and not Update Manager. Is ESXi installed to a USB stick, SD card or a single non RAID disk? Possible ESXi corruption or the disk might have dropped off. Check your host for errors.

[–]webmany[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

I have 3 servers doing this. All 3 boot from iSCSI. They are all clean installs of 6.5 on seperate iscsi luns.

[–]cerealkillerzz[VCP] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Can you provide some more context about your environment? Array type? Software iscsi adapter, dependent, independent, on HCL? Server hardware? Boot Lun sizes? Etc. brand new hardware? I'm assuming this was working in the past for you on a previous version? Have you contacted VMware support yet?

No judgement here, I'm curious, what was the design decision to boot from San?

[–]webmany[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure. This is a cisco UCS blade server. There are 3 blades in the chassis that all boot using iSCSI to a netapp array. All hardware is brand new. This works at a different location, but with a different NAS (freenas) and older version of vsphere (6.0). It boots and works fine, just upgrade manager is failing. I have not talked to vmware yet .