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Month: January 2022

Cannot download VIB: ”. This might be because of network issues or the specified VIB does NOT exist or does NOT have a proper ‘read’ privilege set. Please make sure the specified VIB exists and is accessible from vCenter

 

Unable to patch ESXi host. keep getting the following error:
Cannot download VIB: ”. This might be because of network issues or the specified VIB does NOT exist or does NOT have a proper ‘read’ privilege set. Please make sure the specified VIB exists and is accessible from vCenter

This issue resolves by resetting vum database and retry the updates. I would advise you to take a snapshot of the vCSA before going through this procedure.

The process to reset the database is:

Connect to vCSA via SSH

Run the shell command to switch to the BASH Shell:

shell

Stop the VMware Update Manager Service:

service-control –stop vmware-updatemgr

Run the following command to reset the VMware Update Manager Database:

/usr/lib/vmware-updatemgr/bin/updatemgr-utility.py reset-db

Run the following Command to delete the contents of the VMware Update Manager Patch Store:

rm -rf /storage/updatemgr/patch-store/*

Start the VMware Update Manager Service:

service-control –start vmware-updatemgr

Note: You may need to log out and log back into any instances of the vSphere Web Client.

Note: For vSAN environments this will also remove the vSAN default baselines. These baselines are recreated automatically when there is a configuration change to vSAN such as add/remove a host/disk or an update to the HCL DB. You can still safely update a vSAN cluster without the vSAN default baselines.

After the succesfull reset of the database, you should be able to scan, and apply critical and non-critical patches

Unable to Add ESXi Host to vCenter 6.7

When we try to add an ESXi Host to vCenter we get the following error “A general system error occurred: Unable to push CA certificates and CRLs to host XXXXXXX”

Modify the advanced configuration “Config.HostAgent.ssl.keyStore.allowSelfSigned” introduced in ESXi 6.7 Update 3 to ignore the Self Signed Certificates. 

Connect to the ESXi using Host Client
Select Manage Tab
Select Advanced Settings
Locate the option “Config.HostAgent.ssl.keyStore.allowSelfSigned”
Edit the value from false to true

Reboot the ESXi host.
Retry adding the ESXi host to vCenter Server or certificate renew operation