I use the free version in a home lab setup so I can learn and better utilize VMs for various needs. I found a guide that walked through upgrading my ESXi server to 6.5 using the command line since my server is headless. The command I ran was:
esxcli software profile update -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml -p ESXi-6.5.0-20170104001-standard
The CLI feedback was upgrade successful and reboot. So I did and now when I log into the web GUI I see the version next to my hostname:
Version: 6.5.0 (Build 4887370)
Under "Configuration" and Image Profile though it lists differently:
(Updated) ESXi-6.0.0-20160302001-standard (VMware, Inc.)
Now when I try to power on the two VMs on the machine they fail to start with the following error (Key and VM names are different):
Power On VM
Key haTask-13-vim.VirtualMachine.powerOn-114927889
Description Power On this virtual machine
Virtual machine jumpstreet
State Failed - Transport (VMDB) error -45: Failed to connect to peer process.
Errors Transport (VMDB) error -45: Failed to connect to peer process
I've searched and search different engines and nothing is coming up for error -45. Any help would be greatly appreciated in getting these VMs running again. One of them is kinda important to me and I really goofed it up because I upgraded the VM to HW type 13 and can't download and use it on my Fusion Pro. Thankfully I didn't make that mistake with my zabbix server and was able to migrate it to another machine.
