So recently I was trying to apply Host profile on newy built ESXi host and extracted profile contain some third party vib which need to be installed on the new host. We are using Cisco 1kv vsm swithes and it was trying to install vsm driver on new host and got below error:
On checking the logs I found that ESXi host acceptance level is not set to “partner supported “. Since I was trying to install third part vib. set acceptance level as below and it worked.
#esxcli software acceptance set --level=PartnerSupported
There are 4 acceptance levels :
VMwareCertified
VMwareAccepted
PartnerSupported
CommunitySupported