Trying to update ESXi 6.5 Patch using ESXiCLI within powershell. My path is pointing to a subfolder in datastore called MasterImages.
This is the the path name - /vmfs/volumes/MasterImages/Patches/ESXi650-20210704001/ESXi650-20210704001.zip
Commands being executed:
$argsInstall = $esxcli.software.profile.update.createargs()
$argsInstall.depot = $patchfilepath
$esxcli.software.vib.update.Invoke($argsInstall)
Below is the error received:
Message: EsxCLI.CLIFault.summary;
InnerText: [MetadataDownloadError] Could not download from depot at
zip:/vmfs/volumes/MasterImages/Patches/ESXi650-20210704001/ESXi650-20210704001.zip?index.xml, skipping
(('zip:/vmfs/volumes/MasterImages/Patches/ESXi650-20210704001/ESXi650-20210704001.zip?index.xml', '', "Error extracting index.xml from
/vmfs/volumes/MasterImages/Patches/ESXi650-20210704001/ESXi650-20210704001.zip: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'/vmfs/volumes/MasterImages/Patches/ESXi650-20210704001/ESXi650-20210704001.zip'")) url =
zip:/vmfs/volumes/MasterImages/Patches/ESXi650-20210704001/ESXi650-20210704001.zip?index.xml Please refer to the log file for more
details.EsxCLI.CLIFault.summary
At line:176 char:5
+ $esxcli.software.vib.update.Invoke($argsInstall)}
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : OperationStopped: (:) [], MethodFault
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : VMware.VimAutomation.Sdk.Types.V1.ErrorHandling.VimException.MethodFault
I was able to make an ESX7.0.1 update using $esxcli.software.vib.update.Invoke($argsInstall) but with 6.5 this also returns an error "not able to download from depot".
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