Notice that the vmtoolsRepo packages are located here. I also ran a quick findcommand (from another working host), to get all contents of the VMFS-L mounted partition. List content of the VMFS-L partition (LOCKER) Visorfs-1.00 (Raw Major Version: 0) file system spanning 1 partitions.Ĭapacity 3.9 GB, 3.1 GB available, file block size 4 KB, max supported file size 0 bytes Verify scratch mountpoint vmkfstools -Ph /scratch/

Mentioned workaround, suggesting moving the scratch partition, is not applicable in my case, as I’ve already verified that my scratch partition is running from RAMDISK. There is no resolution for the SD card corruption as of the time this article was published In short, it says that the VMFS-L partition may have become corrupt, and a re-install is needed. I found a related KB from VMware, outlining issues with the new VMFS-L, which started my baseline for troubleshooting VMFS-L Locker partition corruption on SD cards in ESXi 7.0 (83376) See ESXi 7.0 SD Card/USB Drive Issue Temporary Workaround for details.Īfter upgrading my 4-node vSAN-cluster (homelab) to ESXi 7.0 build 17867351 U2a, I detected that ESXi had issues talking to the USB device, where ESXi was installed. host being able to enter maintenance mode, move VMs around, snapshots/backup, doing CLI-stuff/commands, etc.). As previous workaround (copying VMware Tools to RAMDISK with option ToolsRamdisk) only worked for 8 days (in my case), I needed something more “permanent”, to get the ESXi-hosts more “stable” (e.g. As VMware has not released a fix yet (regarding issues with SD card and USB drive), I’m still experiencing issues with ESXi 7.0 U2a Potentially Killing USB and SD drives, running from USB or SD card installs.

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