{"id":2148,"date":"2018-05-10T13:14:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T12:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vdssystems.be\/2018\/05\/the-host-returns-esxupdate-error-code15\/"},"modified":"2018-05-10T13:14:22","modified_gmt":"2018-05-10T12:14:22","slug":"the-host-returns-esxupdate-error-code15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vdssystems.be\/en\/2018\/05\/the-host-returns-esxupdate-error-code15\/","title":{"rendered":"The host returns esxupdate error code:15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When trying to update a host with VUM i got the following error<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The host returns esxupdate error code:15. The package manager transaction is not successful&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After some searching i found article 2030665 on Vmware site. <a href=\"https:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/s\/article\/2030665\">https:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/s\/article\/2030665<\/a><\/p>\n<p>the article says that you need to recreate the version folder under \/locker\/packages. in my case the folder wasnt there. But after recreating the folder version and subfolders i resumed the remediation but it just wouldn&#8217;t update. So i found another article that solved it.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the steps i took:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Start winscp and connect to the affected ESXi host<\/li>\n<li>Start another Winscp session to a ESXi host that has the version folders and subfolders in it<\/li>\n<li>Download the version folder from the good ESXi host to your local hard drive. (\/locker\/packages\/6.5.0 in my case)<\/li>\n<li>Upload the version folder to the affected host that will not update. (\/locker\/packages\/6.5.0\u00a0 with the subfolders included)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also check if the disk isn&#8217;t full<\/p>\n<p>telnet to the affected host. The locker folder points to a local vfat location so use<\/p>\n<p>cd \/locker\/packages<\/p>\n<p>it will show up as \/vms\/volumes\/58f7f2db-b0913e25-f2d6-0894ef3aadde<\/p>\n<p>go through the folders and look if there are any large files. in my case there was a vsantraces folder with large 20 MB trace log files which i had to delete.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When trying to update a host with VUM i got the following error &#8220;The host returns esxupdate error code:15. The package manager transaction is not successful&#8221; After some searching i found article 2030665 on Vmware site. https:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/s\/article\/2030665 the article says that you need to recreate the version folder under \/locker\/packages. in my case the folder wasnt there. But after recreating the folder version and subfolders i resumed the remediation but it just wouldn&#8217;t update. So i found another article that solved it. Here are the steps i took: Start winscp and connect to the affected ESXi host Start another Winscp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3],"tags":[227,225,226],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The host returns esxupdate error code:15 - Vds Systems<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"VMware Update manager. The host returns esxupdate error code:15. 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