After upgrading vCenter, I now had to upgrade my single ESXi Lab host. I mounted the ISO using the BMC out of band utility and booted off the ISO. I ran into an issue with an NSX VIB however and it blocked the upgrade:
Alright, rebooted into ESXi 6.7 and put the host into maintenance mode to remove the offending VIB as follows:
esxcli software vib list
Now spot your offending VIB in the list – mine has the word nsx in it. Then remove it.
esxcli software vib remove -n esx-nsxv
Removal Result
Message: Operation finished successfully.
Reboot Required: false
VIBs Installed:
VIBs Removed: VMware_bootbank_esx-nsxv_6.7.0-0.0.8590012
VIBs Skipped:
Ok, back to the upgrade…….
Crap, what’s this about?!!! I’d better have all my network cards and Storage Devices after this install?!!
Ok, so the install went ok, I have all my network cards BUT my LSI RAID Controller with all my SSD storage is not recognized!! Darn! Collaterol Damage! Where’s that HCL?!
So I’ve a Supermicro X10DRi-T-O and LSI MegaRaid 9271-8i. Neither storage chipset is recognized. Hopefully someone will release a hack but I might have to downgrade here if google doesn’t turn up something……darn it!!! Best of luck with your upgrade, check the HCL’s!!
