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VIB Conflict on Upgrading ESXi with Fujitsu/IBM/HPE Custom Image

 

 

Host upgrades with custom images offer extended driver support for vendor specific hardware or agents.

You’ll get drivers that are not included in a standard VMware image. Upgrading with customized images may lead into trouble while updating existing driver packages. There used to be a nasty bug with the lsiprovider package on Fujitsu ESXi images. when upgrading a customized Fujitsu installation to ESXi 6.0. 

 

Here’s a path on the boot-media locked by multiple VIBs. It is related to LSI, so let’s search for LSI VIBs.

Connect via SSH to your ESXi host and check VIBs:

 

run Commands

 

#esxcli software vib list | grep LSI

 

as result, you can see there are many packeges:

 

lsiprovider 500.04.V0.63-0005

 

scsi-mpt3sas

 

vmware-esx-storcli-1.17.08

 

 

 

Seems that we have to get rid of three LSI packages.

Package lsiprovider offers drivers for SCSI controllers LSI MegaRAID, LSI SAS IR, LSI SAS IR2 and MegaSR.

VIB scsi-mpt3sas offers support for SAS2 and SAS3 HBA.

To interact with LSI SAS-Controllers there’s vmware-esx-storcli. 

Because there were no LSI SAS controllers on our host, it was safe to remove all three packages.

 

run the commands for remove packages from host (Fujitsu and HPE):

 

#esxcli software vib remove -n lsiprovider

 

#esxcli software vib remove -n scsi-mpt3sas  *(Imposrtant: if on your host, there is no scsi-mpt3sas package and you have another name, just leave it as it is)*

 

#esxcli software vib remove -n vmware-esx-storcli-1.17.08

 

 

run the commands for remove packages from host (IBM):

 

#esxcli software vib remove -n ibmcustomization

 

#esxcli software vib remove -n LSIProvider

 

A new custom image comes around with latest versions of the packages we’ve just removed before. Ready for potential fun in future upgrades. 

in some cases, Host needs to be restarted 2 times, dont be afraid if you see strange behavior, thats normal, 

take your time till host rebooted.

 

have fun!