Tag: VIB

ESXi: Error returned by expat parser: not well-formed (invalid token) while parsing serialized value

ESXi

Yesterday I was surprised by this error. It occurred after planning powered off of ESXi hosts due to building maintenance. Hosts were put in Maintenance Mode and powered off. After the scheduled time hosts were powered on, however, two of them did not reconnect to vCenter and they were visible as not responding. Manual attempt…

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What to do if your baseline is incompatible?

ESXi

During ESXi upgrade process on one of the cluster I saw that baseline which works fine everywhere else is incompatible! What would be your first though ? Reboot? Old firmware? Fortunately we can scroll down and have a look what the error is all about. As we can see there is an issue with VIBs.…

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