I am trying to patch my ESXi 6.0.0, 3029758 to patch ESXi600-20171101 but it is producing the error [Errno 28] No space left on device. on which drive does the Update get installed and can I delete the swap file on one of the datastores, called 'OS Store'. I presume the patch gets deployed here but there is a large swap file in here that I am cautious of deleting. Please see attached images.
I am struggling to path this host that another engineer before me left in a mess. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
This is the system-wide Swap files which gets created based on the system advanced swap file settings
-hls-* stands for hostlocal swap file.
In general you can end up with 3 different types of system-wide swap files based on the system advanced swap file settings and usage
Datastore -> sysSwap-ds-*
SSDDatastore -> sysSwap-hc-*
HostLocal' -> sysSwap-hls-*
Regards,
Randhir
Hi,
Not sure about ESXi 6.0, but for 6.5 solution below worked very well.
Connect to https://your_esxi_host
Navigator > Host > Manage > System > Swap > Edit Settings >
Enable - Yes
Datastore - "chose your ssd"
Local swap - Enabled - Yes
Host Cache Enabled -Yes
Save and maybe reboot and try your patch installation again.