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Cannot upgrade esxi on Powered R630
Having problem to upgrade (or fresh install) an VMWare Esxi installed on an Powered R630.
The server was delivired with VMWare 5.5 already installed on SD card media.
When trying to upgrade i get "Permission Denied" (see attached picture).
Have tried upgrade with bootable usb, cd and VMware update manager, all failing.
Have 2 servers and both have the same problem.
Anyone have any idea whats causing this?
DELL-Daniel My
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October 10th, 2015 15:00
Hello
It looks like it is trying to modify the datastore. The datastore is likely on the physical disks and not the SD. If you are not using our custom image then the drivers required to properly communicate with the storage may not be loaded.
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October 11th, 2015 05:00
DELL-Daniel My
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October 11th, 2015 14:00
Make sure you write down your product key before performing a fresh install. You can view it from the license section.
Set the USB mode to 2.0 and try the upgrade again. If the issue persists and you are already working with warranty support then it would be best that you continue working with them since a review of your configuration and all options that you are selecting will be needed.
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RyanLehms
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October 30th, 2015 06:00
For anybody that finds this thread like I did a couple days ago....
There's a read only partition on the SD cards when shipped from the factory. When we tried to upgrade to 6.0U1 from 6.0, the installer from Dell could not overwrite that partition. After working with support for 9 hours, we discovered that the only option was to do a fresh installation.
pug38ish
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December 10th, 2015 08:00
Are you sure coredump wasn't configured to be on the SD Card? I recently had a similar problem and it turned out to be the coredump partition. Here is what I did
vmwwarevsansoupnuts.blogspot.com/.../so-i-ran-into-issue-recently-with.html
Basically removing the coredump partition, running the upgrade, then re-enabling the coredump partition.
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December 10th, 2015 08:00