Staging is getting failed on ESXi 6.0

[Jitu211003]

Hi,

Esxi hosts are unable to stage the patches. It is happening for all ESXi host in Vcenter server.

Error is "failed to download the patch from patch source. see the update manager logs or event"

Can anyone have any idea.

Thanks

[Wonlliv]

Hi there,

are all ports configured at the firewall?

VMware Knowledge Base

What does the logs show?

Best regards!

[Jitu211003]

Logs are showing that hosts unabe to download some cpu microcode patches.

[Wonlliv · Accepted solution]

Maybe these are the patches which were reverted.

VMware Knowledge Base

"Although VMware strongly recommends that customers obtain microcode patches through their hardware vendor, as an aid to customers, VMware also included the initial microcode patches in ESXi650-201801402-BG, ESXi600-201801402-BG, and ESXi550-201801401-BG. Intel has notified VMware of recent sightings that may affect some of the initial microcode patches that provide the speculative execution control mechanism for a number of Intel processors (see Table 1.) The issue can occur when the speculative execution control is actually used within a virtual machine by a patched OS. As a result, VMware is delaying new releases of microcode updates while it works with Intel to resolve microcode patch issues as quickly as possible."