Hi guys,
We have some esx hosts still in version 3.0.1.
Yesterday we tried to upgrade one of this host to version 3.0.2 with the tar file update from 3 to 3.0.2 available on vmware website. After unpacking the tar file in /tmp we launched esx-update update command that went fine till the end but on reboot all configurations have disappeared, no more vswitch, no more console, no more IP settings, all gone...Nothing to do then reinstalling from scratch version 3.0.2, recreating everything from licensing to networking.
I was helped with an external consultant that had never seen this happening before and didn't know what to do. Sorry i don't have anymore logs to provide as we reinstalled the entire host. But i am wondering if this behavior rings a bell to one of you. We still have two esx hosts to upgrade and I'd like the upgrade to work this time.
The consultant told me it could have been because of not having enough space disk available, the two other hosts :
\[root@remcorpesx01 root]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 4.9G 2.1G 2.5G 46% /
/dev/sda1 244M 32M 200M 14% /boot
none 131M 0 131M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda5 4.9G 631M 4.0G 14% /tmp
/dev/sda6 4.9G 97M 4.5G 3% /var/log
\[root@remcorpesx02 root]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 4.9G 2.8G 1.8G 62% /
/dev/sda1 244M 32M 200M 14% /boot
none 131M 0 131M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda5 4.9G 574M 4.0G 13% /tmp
/dev/sda6 4.9G 91M 4.5G 2% /var/log
