Update problem with ESXi 4.0 to ESXi 4.0 U 1

[Emmermacher]

Hello.

This morning I try to make an update my ESXi 4.0 server to ESXi 4.0 U1 using Host update utility 4.0.0 Build 162856.

My Hardware: FSC Primergy BX620 S5, 4 CPU, 12 GB RAM, 300 GB HDD.

After shutdown all guests I started maintanance mode. The update process teminates with "Not enough diskspace". On the machine are 151 GB diskspace available... ?:|

What's wrong here???

Thanks in advance for your answers.

Best regards.

Dirk Emmermacher

[krfa261286 · Accepted solution]

Hello,

When you say, 151 GB diskspace available, it's the disk space for VMFS I think, not for VMware. Right ?

Control the disk space available on your partition /, /boot, /tmp, /home /var.

Did you update the server from an older version of ESX, like 3.5?

[AntonVZhbankov]

/tmp is used for temporary patch storage and it is not related to VMFS datastores.

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[Emmermacher]

Hello .

Thanks for your answer.

I think ,your're right.

The system has three primary partions:

1. DOS 16 4MB, 2. VMFS 277.59GB and 3. extended 896MB

There are also four logical partitions here

4. DOS 16-Bit 250MB, 5. DOS 16-bit 250MB, 6 VMware diagnostic 110MB and 7. DOS 16-bit 286 MB

Totally 278 GB diskspace.

In the vSphereClient I can increase the size of vmfs volumes. Is there a chance to make them smaller and use the free space for VMware? Was therean option for setup disksize during installation? I can't remember on it...

I installed the CLI one hour ago. So I don't have any expreiences with this tool.

Best regards.

Dirk

[Emmermacher]

Hello.

I will reinstall the whole ESXi Server. We found no other way.

Best regards.

Dirk