Hello,
last August, I've updated our (Free) Esxi 5.5 to version 6.0.
First, everything seems to be working fine.
But after a while, I found out that configuration changes were not preserved after a reboot of the host.
Configuration changes are very rare in our company, for that it took a while to notice the problem, so I am not 100% sure, that this problem stems from the update.
Hardware Information:
ProLiant ML350p Gen8
iLO Self-Test Results:
Supported host
Power Management Controller Version 3.3
....
Embedded Flash/SD-CARD Controller firmware revision 2.10.00 /8 GB SD-CARD in internal slot
CPLD - PAL1 ProLiant ML350p Gen8 SAS Programmable Logic Device version 0x0C
CPLD - PAL0 ProLiant ML350p Gen8 System Programmable Logic Device version 0x4D
....
software information:
vmware -vl
VMware ESXi 6.0.0 build-9313334
VMware ESXi 6.0.0 Update 3
esxcfg-info -e
boot type: visor-usb
After doing some reading in the vmware kb I found out:
[root@esxi-hit:~] ls -la /*boot*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Apr 23 13:19 /bootbank -> /tmp
-r--r--r-- 1 root root 332055 Jul 27 2018 /bootpart.gz
[root@esxi-hit:/etc/rc.local.d] vmkfstools -P /altbootbank
Could not open /altbootbank
Error: No such file or directory
[root@esxi-hit:/etc/rc.local.d] grep bootbank /var/log/esxupdate.log
2019-04-23T06:44:12Z esxupdate: 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'
So, it seems that there is something wrong with the "Embedded Flash/SD-CARD"
What can I do to get rid of the problem?
Thanks in advance.
best regards from germany
Siegfried