Install-VMHostPatch causes host to purple screen

[esstokes1]

I'm trying to update hosts from ESXi 5.0 U2 to 5.0 U3 using update-from-esxi5.0-5.0_update03.zip.  I'm using PowerCLI 5.1 R2.  Here are my steps after connecting to my VC:

$vmhost = Get-VMHost -Name myhost.domain.net

$metazip = "/vmfs/volumes/SAN-DATASTORE01/ESXi-5.0.0-20131002001/metadata.zip  # tried changing ESXi-5.0.0-20131002001 to ESXi-5.0.0-20131002001-standard to match the profile in update-from-esxi5.0-5.0_update03.zip

Install-VMHostPatch -VMHost $vmhost -HostPath $metazip

Here's the output:

WARNING: The update completed successfully, but the system needs to be rebooted for the changes to be effective.

IsApplicable IsInstalled NeedsReconnect NeedsRestart

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It appears to install correctly but when I reboot the server it purple screens and then on reboot it loads 5.0 U2.  I was just wondering if anyone else had seen this or if there is something wrong with how I'm using Install-VMHostPatch.  I also tried this using the InstallHostPatchV2_Task method with the HostPatchManager object and I'm seeing purple screen there as well.  Is it ok to have the patch on a shared datastore or does it need to be on a local datastore?

Thanks

Eric

[LucD]

What is the purple screen indicating ?

See KB1004250

[esstokes1]

Here's the purple screen.  I can open an SR about the purple screen but I think this has to do with Install-VMHostPatch (or the options I'm entering) since I've patched a number of ESXi servers using this same zip file with the 'esxcli software profile update' comand namespace successfully.

[LucD]

That's a page fault, you would require a core dump and VMware support to determine what is happening.

If you do this upgrade with the Update Manager, do you get the same purple screen ?

[esstokes1]

No Update Manager in our environment but even using PowerCLI with Get-ESXCli works to install the update.  I created an array that has the path to all the vibs in the zip file and tried to install using the Install_HostPatchV2 method.

$patchManager = get-view -id $vmhost.ExtensionData.configManager.patchManager

$results = $patchManager.InstallHostPatchV2($null,$null,$vibs,$null)

According to vCenter, the Install task completed successfully but when I look at $results I get this:

Version         : 1.40

Status          :

XmlResult       : <esxupdate-response>

                  <version>1.40</version>

                  <error errorClass="ValueError">

                    <errorCode>99</errorCode>

                    <errorDesc>VIB VMware_bootbank_scsi-hpsa_5.0.0-17vmw.500.3.41.1311175 obsoletes VIBs VMware_bootbank_scsi-hpsa_5.0.0-17vmw.500.0.0.469512 in the input to AddVibs -- cannot continue</errorDesc>

                  </error>

                  </esxupdate-response>

I'm thinking scsi-hpsa isn't being updated and that's causing the problem.  Looking at the purple screen image it says that "No place on disks to dump data" but I checked after rebooting back into 5.0 U2 and the esxcli system coredump partition list command shows a partition is active and configured.  I'm not sure there is much else that can be done here - I was hoping someone would be able to try the same and see if this works for them but it might be specific to HP hardware.