VMware published the patch for ESXi 6.0 CBT bug. This patch will resolve the issue i.e. Backing up a virtual machine with Change Block Tracking (CBT) enabled fails after upgrading to or installing VMware ESXi 6.0. All customers that upgraded to ESXi 6.0 or installed ESXi 6.0 were affected.
Symptoms of this bug were:
- Power Ops failed.
- Expanding the size of a virtual disk fails
- Taking virtual machine quiesced snapshots fails.
You can download the patchESXi600-201505401-BG from the vmware download and update this using the Update manager or Esxcli.
I will cover esxcli method here:
steps :
1. Download the Patch in the host data store .
2. Put the host in Maintenance mode
3. Run the command esxcli software vib install -d "/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/ESXi600-201505001.zip"
4. Reboot the host .
5. Put the host out of maintenance mode.