Newbee here,
I'm tinkering with VMWare 6.5 and have ESXi up and running. I keep getting this error "unfortunately we hit an error that we weren't expecting" when I try to created a new datastore. I cant' find a resolution and am therefor halted in my progress of building a few VMs.
Any ideas on how to solve?
thanks
What version of the host client are you using? If it's stand-alone ESXi, it would be best to update the host client via the latest fling available here. You can use the Update functionality built into the client and point it at the published latest VIB for even easier updating: http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmw-tools/esxui/esxui-signed-latest.vib
Can you post vmkernel.log from your host and provide timestamp when you got the error?
Can you also describe a bit more abour what storage you use and how it's connected to your host?
I'm using the webui as my older Vsphere client from a 5.0 server will NOT connect.
I'm not following your question if my answer doesn't make sense?
Update the host client using the process I mentioned and try your operation again.
ok, can you point me how to update my host? I'm reading the link, but it doesn't tell me how to perform the update?
Applied the update and tried again, same error (pasted below)
This is a 3TB SATA drive, nothing complicated imho
Cause: TypeError: Cannot read property 'index' of null
Version: 1.21.0
Build: 5724747
ESXi: 6.5.0
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36
Exception stack:
TypeError: Cannot read property 'index' of null
at $scope.wizardOptions.currentPage.onCommit (https://192.168.1.10/ui/scripts/main.js:359:13125)
at onCommit (https://192.168.1.10/ui/scripts/main.js:462:3976)
at Object.onNextClick (https://192.168.1.10/ui/scripts/main.js:462:4168)
at b.$scope.onNextClick (https://192.168.1.10/ui/scripts/main.js:462:7155)
at https://192.168.1.10/ui/scripts/main.js:321:23160
at https://192.168.1.10/ui/scripts/main.js:428:24773
at b.$eval (https://192.168.1.10/ui/scripts/main.js:320:17497)
at b.$apply (https://192.168.1.10/ui/scripts/main.js:320:17723)
at HTMLButtonElement.<anonymous> (https://192.168.1.10/ui/scripts/main.js:428:24755)
at HTMLButtonElement.dispatch (https://192.168.1.10/ui/scripts/main.js:317:14464)
The latest version is 1.23. Click on About and make sure it reports that version.
its still showing 1.21.0
I'm getting this from Help, about, Client Version
Its like the update isn't taking??
1.21.0
5724747
6.5.0
5969303
Use the offline package instead, upload to the host, and upgrade that way.
i put it on my boot datastore, but how do I point the ui to that directory? it wants a http or https link, not a path?
You don't, you use esxcli to upgrade using that path. Guide available here.
I can't see how this matters, but i executed the command from a ssh session versus on the host itself and got this error
esxcli software v
ib update esxui-signed-6360286.vib
Error: Unknown command or namespace software vib update esxui-signed-6360286.vib
nevermind, worked this time
[root@dot10:/vmfs/volumes/5a01c772-921df7a5-24b9-d8d385c049ea] esxcli software v
ib update -d esxui-signed-latest.vib
[MetadataDownloadError]
Could not download from depot at esxui-signed-latest.vib/index.xml, skipping (('esxui-signed-latest.vib/index.xml', '', 'file not found'))
url = esxui-signed-latest.vib/index.xml
Please refer to the log file for more details.
[root@dot10:/vmfs/volumes/5a01c772-921df7a5-24b9-d8d385c049ea]
shows 1.23 as my version and my problem is solved
Thanks!!! mighty quick service, I'm thoroughly impresssed
That's not the right command. You need to upload the offline bundle from the Flings site as shown here.
Once you've uploaded that, you need to execute esxcli software vib update -d "/vmfs/volumes/<my_datastore>/patch-directory/esxui-offline-bundle-6.x-6360286.zip"
Ok, good, so that's what I was thinking. Your issue was addressed in 1.22 or 1.23, so that solved it.
ok, next challenge, how do I copy multiple files to this machine. I had copied VMs from another server and want to copy them over. it appears that the webui doesn't have the upload a directory option like the client had??
No directory or multi-file-selection upload possible right now.