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wasteram
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ESXI 6.0 upgrade to 6.7 U3: Unable to successfully execute 'retryWrites' after 3 tries

Hello,

I have an ESXI system I am unable to upgrade... The VCenter upgrade process fails, and when I attempted to upgrade by booting from the ESXI 6.7 U3 USB, I get the above error message at about 12% into the process.

I've tried two different .ISO downloads, and get the same result. System reboots back into ESXI 6.0 afterwards and continues to operate with no issue, I just can't upgrade.

Google and search of these forums and VMWare kb turn up almost nothing for this error. I have found no log file which seems to contain anything relevant (Not sure if I am checking the correct logs).

Hardware is a Supermicro SYS-1028R-WC1RT , booting from a 32GB SATADOM, with 64GB RAM and 3+TB RAID6 local datastore.

The only other discussion of this error mentions the MBR being marked read-only, how can I check for this?

Any other suggestions appreciated!
JDC

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Alex_Romeo
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Hi,

It is unclear how this update is being performed.

The procedure is: first update the vCenter and then the ESXi nodes

Are you doing this?

ARomeo

Blog: https://www.aleadmin.it/
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wasteram
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The Vcenter server is already at 6.7, it manages two ESXI hosts. One of the two ESXI hosts was upgraded to 6.7 thru Vcenter with no issue, but the problem host failed to upgrade using this method. I attempted to upgrade it by booting from the the ESXI 6.7 ISO, and received the subject error message (image attached).

JDC

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Alex_Romeo
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Hi,

ok! I understand. I would try to manage it differently ... I would do 6.0 -> 6.5U3 -> 6.7U3

...it's a little more laborious but it might work

ARomeo

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