A Tweet from @ESXiPatches prompted me to update my ESXi 6.7.0 host. I enabled SSH and tried to update, but I got the popular message:
$ esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-6.7.0-20220704001-standard \ -d https://hostupdate.vmware.com/software/VUM/PRODUCTION/main/vmw-depot-index.xml [OSError] [Errno 28] No space left on device Please refer to the log file for more details.
This is not the first time I’ve been hit by this error. Last time I worked around it I did not document it. I do know that I tried the solution from virten.net and it did not work.
I came across another solution where instead of specifying the depot URL, esxcli can be pointed at an archive. I downloaded the patch zip file from VMware Customer Connect, uploaded it to my datastore (datastore-0), and was able to update my host with the following command:
$ esxcli software profile update -p ESXi-6.7.0-20220704001-standard -d /vmfs/volumes/datastore-0/_downloads/ESXi670-202207001.zip Update Result Message: The update completed successfully, but the system needs to be rebooted for the changes to be effective. Reboot Required: true <snip>