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mbartle
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ESXi 7.0 U1 Altbootbank is empty on 3 hosts but fine on another

I had to rebuild one host from scratch to 7.0 U1 Dell EMC and it contains a valid /altbootbank with files in it.

The other 3 hosts were upgraded using Lifecycle manager from 6.7 U3 to 7.0 U1 (Using same image i used on the rebuild). These 3 hosts have a valid altbootbank but the folder is empty on all 3 hosts.  

The servers are operating fine, I can reboot and perform vMotion etc on them.  I suspect this isn't normal.  Any idea how to go about fixing this? I opened a SR but they are so slow these days i figure i'd ask here as well.

My other cluster of 6.7 all have files in altbootbank. I suspect the in-place upgrade has caused this so i'm a bit hesitant to upgrade the others until i sort this out

It's not an issue of the altbootbank being corrupted. It's just empty. I can create / delete files manually in that folder

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TerryD75
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I just upgraded from 6.5 to 7.03 one one host only and it has an empty /altbootbank also.  Did you ever find out why and if it caused any problems?

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