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Attempting to upgrade ESXi on a Nutanix node manually fails with: “OSError: [Errno 39 Directory not empty: ‘/vmfs/volumes/e2be1277-f8844313-564e-dbe0fc3821c4/Nutanix’”

Problem You’re attempting to manually upgrade a Nutanix node from VMware ESXi, 6.5.0, 17167537 to VMware ESXi, 6.7.0, 15160138 with the ISO VMware-VMvisor-Installer-201912001-15160138.x86_64.iso then patch it to VMware ESXi, 6.7.0, 17700523 with ESXi670-202103001.zip: Upgrade ESXi, preserve VMFS datastore … but the upgrade from 6.5 to

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Upgrading Nutanix blades from ESXi 5.1 to 5.5

I don’t usually perform upgrades of Nutanix blocks from 5.1 to 5.5 but I’ve noticed that whenever I do, I’ve always had to reference an email in my Outlook’s Draft folder with the notes and screenshots I’ve captured during a previous upgrade so just in

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