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ESXi 5.0 Host suddenly has missing updates?

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Has anyone come across an issue where a host (2x in my case) that were previously fully patched and 100% compliant, suddenly reports missing patches (in my case 30x missing, some from a year ago) in the Update Manager tab, yet shows the correct build number (ie. current)?

 

~ # esxcli system version get
Product: VMware ESXi
Version: 5.0.0
Build: Releasebuild-821926
Update: 1

 

The only changes prior to this issue starting was the upgrading of the Dell VC plugin and deploying the Dell OpenManage Offline Bundle and VIB for ESXi 5.0 (version 7.1) via VUM. OpenManage version 7.0 was already installed on these hosts and this upgrade worked successfully on 14 other hosts.

 

The Dell extension also shows as missing in VUM, so I logged onto the DCUI and ran "esxcli software vib list" to see if OpenManage had been removed, but not upgraded. To my suprise, this is all that gets returned. I would expect to see alot more, and do on other hosts;

 

~ # esxcli software vib list
Name         Version            Vendor  Acceptance Level  Install Date
-----------  -----------------  ------  ----------------  ------------
tools-light  5.0.0-1.22.821926  VMware  VMwareCertified   2012-10-02
~ #

 

If I try and remediate the host, it fails with the following error;

The host returns esxupdate error code:15.
The package manager transaction is not successful. Check the Update Manager log files and esxupdate log files for more details.

 

I can see these errors in the esxupdate.log;
2012-10-25T12:46:05Z esxupdate: Metadata.pyc: INFO: Unrecognized file vendor-index.xml in Metadata file

 

I'm reluctant to use these 2x hosts at the moment as they are part of a production 5x host cluster and I'm not sure they are stable enough to be depended on. They are currently sitting in maintenace mode, and I could rebuild them, but wanted to resolve this without a rebuild so that we understand what went wrong.

 

I do have an open support call with VMware, but thought that I would throw it out into the community jsut incase anyone else has seen this and knows how to resolve it without rebuilding the host.

 

Thanks (as always),

Jon


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