From ESXi 7.0 GA onwards, when you attempt to upgrade your host from ESXi 6.7 or ESXi 6.5 to ESXi 7.0 with async driver VIBs as listed in Table-1, your upgrade experience may be impacted. During such situation, upgrade will fail with
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If your host require impacted device/driver combination, your fresh-install experience may also be impacted. When you attempt to install or update of 6.x driver VIBs listed at Table-1, on a host with ESXi 7.0GA and onwards, it will fail with vmkapi DependencyErrorWhen you attempt to upgrade your host from ESXi 6.7 or ESXi 6.5 to ESXi 7.0 with deprecated vmklinux driver VIBs without native driver replacements in the ESXi 7.0 images, upgrade will fail with vmkapi and additional dependency errors.
Note, customers upgrading from ESXi 6.5 or ESXi 6.7 without drivers as listed in Table-1 should not be impacted with this issue when using stock1 ESXi 7.0 image from VMware or using partner-supplied stock2 image. The only customers who may be impacted are those using one or more of the async drivers from Table-1, and their target 7.0 image does not include a higher version of each of the drivers .
Following are few examples of the error which customer may encounter.
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- Dependency Errors due to vmkapi version deprecated in 7.0
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VIB QLC_bootbank_qedi_2.10.15.0-1OEM.670.0.0.8169922 requires vmkapi_2_2_0_0, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile
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VIB QLC_bootbank_qedi_2.10.15.0-1OEM.670.0.0.8169922 requires vmkapi_2_2_0_0, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile
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VIB QLC_bootbank_qedf_1.3.35.0-1OEM.600.0.0.2768847 requires vmkapi_2_2_0_0, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile.
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VIB QLC_bootbank_qedf_1.3.35.0-1OEM.600.0.0.2768847 requires vmkapi_2_3_0_0, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile.
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VIB QLC_bootbank_qedf_1.3.35.0-1OEM.600.0.0.2768847 requires qedentv_ver = X.11.6.0, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile.
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VIB QLC_bootbank_qedi_2.10.15.0-1OEM.670.0.0.8169922 requires qedentv_ver = X.11.6.0, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile.
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VIB QLC_bootbank_qfle3f_1.0.68.0-1OEM.650.0.0.4598673 requires vmkapi_2_2_0_0, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile.
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VIB SFC_bootbank_sfvmk_2.3.3.1002-1OEM.650.0.0.4598673 requires vmkapi_2_2_0_0, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile.
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- Dependency Errors due to deprecated vmklinux drivers without native replacement drivers.
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VIB HPE_bootbank_scsi-hpdsa_5.5.0.54-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 requires com.vmware.driverAPI-9.2.2.0, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile.
VIB HPE_bootbank_scsi-hpvsa_5.5.0.102-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 requires vmkapi_2_2_0_0, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile.
VIB HPE_bootbank_scsi-hpvsa_5.5.0.102-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 requires com.vmware.driverAPI-9.2.2.0, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile.
VIB HPE_bootbank_scsi-hpdsa_5.5.0.54-1OEM.550.0.0.1331820 requires vmkapi_2_2_0_0, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile.
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VIB EMU_bootbank_scsi-be2iscsi_11.1.145.8-1OEM.600.0.0.2494585 requires com.vmware.driverAPI-9.2.3.0, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile.
VIB EMU_bootbank_scsi-be2iscsi_11.1.145.8-1OEM.600.0.0.2494585 requires vmkapi_2_3_0_0, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile.