Hyper-001
From Nasqueron Agora
The server hyper-001 is an hypervisor hosted at OVH (GRA). It hosts infrastructures servers like router-001, db-A-001, Complector.
It supersedes Dreadnought.
- OS: VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7
- CPU: AMD EPYC 7351P 16-Core Processor, 16 core, 32 logical processors
- RAM: 128 GB RAM
- Datastore: 3.51 TB (Soft RAID 2x)
Netbox: https://netbox.nasqueron.org/dcim/devices/1/
Troubleshoot
Upgrade procedure
A patch upgrade is a collection of VIBs in a ZIP:
- At https://customerconnect.vmware.com/patch pick ESXi then the version (e.g. 7.0), click Search
- Download the depot ZIP
- Upload the depot ZIP to the hypervisor
- Check the MD5 or SHA1 hash. Several times the file was corrupted during upload.
- Follow https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.esxi.upgrade.doc/GUID-E51C5DB6-F28E-42E8-ACA4-0EBDD11DF55D.html
- List the profiles in the depot, the interesting one is standard, e.g.
esxcli software sources profile list -d /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/_Updates/ESXi670-202210001.zip - Install it with the "only supported command", e.g.
esxcli software profile update -d /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/_Updates/ESXi670-202210001.zip --profile=ESXi-6.7.0-20221004001-standard
- List the profiles in the depot, the interesting one is standard, e.g.
- Reboot with
reboot
ZIP files
