Upgrade from 6.0 to 6.5 ESXi - Cannot Start VMs

[FLJamie]

Did an upgrade to 6.5 ESXi today from 6.0.  Seemed to go fine, but now i cannot start my VMs.  Every one i start gives me this error code.

Any ideas?  Thanks.

[rcporto]

Please attach the /var/log/vmkernel.log and check if the following blog post helps: Terence Luk: Unable to power on virtual machines on ESXi host with the error: "Invalid or unsupporte...

[rshell]

FLJamie,

Can you power on the machines if you move them to a different host? It may be due to insufficient disk space on the host or VMFS volume. I would look over the logs as well as check the free space on the ESXi partition.

[FLJamie]

It is not a space issue for sure.  All the volumes have enough space.  Attached it the log file.  Thanks for the response and any help you can give here.

[FLJamie]

Will try the different host once i get it setup.  It is a small server and not a lot of space is being used.  Primarily used for a test lab and a VPN server.

[rcporto]

I found the following in your VMkernel log:

2017-03-08T00:11:18.687Z cpu2:72463)WARNING: User: 4530: vmx: Error in initial cartel setup: Failed to open /bin/vmx: Operation not permitted

And with that message I found another similar thread with a solution, see: upgrade esxi from 6.0 to 6.5,VM can't power on